"This is a time when legislators should listen, and closely, to what their constituents are saying and expecting them to do."
"The ‘carbon dividend’ is so elegant that it seems too good to be true. Governments should make it a post-pandemic priority."
"...there is much to fix...to promote recovery from the human and economic damages caused by the coronavirus and our responses to it."
"Over time, the weather eventually becomes more favorable. Unfortunately, the climate is not going to change back to what used to be."
“...it's overwhelmingly human activities – in particular combustion of fossil fuels – that can explain observed global temperature increases."
Henry Jacoby and co-authors write: "Ignoring the science to cook the numbers discredits the federal process for public decision-making."
"With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy."
Henry Jacoby and co-authors write: “The inextricable connections between global warming and pandemics are ignored at our peril."
Prof. Henry Jacoby and co-authors write: “...even under all of this stress, we cannot afford to forget the peril posed by an overheated planet."
