Rotary Talk on Carbon Pricing 2017/2/17

Title 1
Marblehead Harbor Rotary Club
Masons Lodge, 62 Pleasant Street
April 18, 2017,

Presentation by
Steven Levy, stevenlevymath.com

Title 2
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Charges: AKA Carbon Pricing, Carbon Fee and Dividend, Carbon Tax

Adaptation Topics
1 - Gulf of Maine
2 - Carbon Pricing Legislation
3 - Possible Outcomes

It's Like Selling Life Insurance, Only Worse

The Gulf of Maine
Gulf of Maine Image

Found on the english Wikipedia Image :GulfofMaine.jpg. Digital bathymetry map of the Gulf of Maine. Credit: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole, MA Labels by Syagria.)  Digital bathymetry map of the Gulf of Maine. Credit: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole, MA. Labels by Syagria.

Water Temperature in the Gulf of Maine
"Warming waters a major factor in Gulf of Maine cod collapse" by NOAA Research 
http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/11410/Warming-waters-a-major-factor-in-Gulf-of-Maine-cod-collapse.aspx


Temperature is rising 15 times faster in the Gulf of Maine than the rest 

of the ocean.

References

Analysis of a Carbon Fee or Tax as a Mechanism to Reduce GHG Emissions in Massachusetts

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/12/northeast-will-experience-faster-warming-from-climate-change-new-study-finds/nitce6eK8zqQN2LXZXgvwK/story.html

https://grist.org/series/skeptics/