Laser Talks

Practice our laser talks:

Learn to speak about climate change like an expert.

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRACTICE LASER TALKS:

• PAIR AND SHARE: Practice the laser talks with a partner over coffee.
• MIRROR WORK: Rehearse them in front of a mirror.
• PICK AND CHOOSE: Practice the laser talks that interest you the most – you don’t have to learn all of them.  If you are new to Citizens’ Climate Lobby – keep it simple. The first six laser talks are the most important, along with the laser talks directed at the various political parties.

Note that the laser talks are not meant for people to present as monologues. The real purpose of the laser talks is to facilitate a discussion on climate change with our political representatives, the media and the general public.

Here is a compilation of Laser Talks in a Booklet from November 2015.

Carbon pricing:

• Carbon Fee and Dividend
• The Five Chief Ways to Price Carbon
• Carbon Pricing is the Way Forward (April 2015, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission Report)
• Why We Want 100% Revenue Neutrality
• How a revenue carbon pricing alone will spur low-carbon investments
• Reframing the high cost of carbon
• You Had Me at ‘Pigovian’
• The BC Carbon Tax – Updated May 2016
• The BC Carbon Tax versus Carbon Fee and Dividend
• Why Australia’s Carbon Tax Was Repealed in July of 2014
• Carbon Fee and Dividend Will Reward Carbon Conscious Conusmers
• Why We Prefer a Fee to Cap-and-Trade
• Cutting carbon is cheaper than you think – IPCC data
• CCL Canada’s Carbon Pricing Criteria
• Canada and the FASTER Principles 
• Our Guidelines for Canada’s Carbon Pricing Policy

Canada:

• About Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
• Canada’s Current Climate Targets are Woefully Inadequate (November 2016)
• Less than 5% of the Canadian Economy is Trade Exposed (November 2015, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission Report)
• Canada Must Eliminate Fossil Fuel Subsidies
• Canadian Opinions on Climate Change 
• Canada’s Clean Technology Industry (updated February 2016)
• Momentum is Building for Carbon Pricing in Canada
• Canada can have 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
• How 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 will cost Canadians less money
• Three ways to reconcile Federal and Provincial Carbon Pricing Policies
• Carbon pricing, national unity and revenue neutrality
• Canadian Jobs and Carbon Pricing
• Impact of Carbon Fee and Dividend on Rural and Ordinary Canadians
• Canadian Companies Support a Carbon Tax  September 2016
• Balancing the budget, social concerns and the climate crisis 

Global Economics

• Border Tax Adjustments
• World Trade Organization and Carbon Fee and Dividend
• Trump’s Climate Disconnect – Five Laser Talks in Response to Trump Leaving Paris Accord
• Carbon Fee and Dividend and NAFTA (February 2014)
• China — Does It Matter What We Do?
• Should We Do Something If China Isn’t?
• Worldwide Carbon Pricing and the FASTER Principles
• Energy Darwinism – Citibank Calls for a Low Carbon Economy  – January 2016
• AJR43: California Legislators Support Carbon Fee and Dividend

Science and Technology

• What the Latest IPCC Report is Telling Us
• The Difference Between Science and the Scientist
• Point of No Return for West Antarctic Ice Sheets
• Recent Weather in No Way Disproves Global Warming
• Why Natural Gas is not a Good “Transition” Fuel

Climate Connections

• Climate Change and Global Security
• The Effect of Pricing Carbon on Farmers
• Climate Change is a Medical Emergency
• Are Tar Sands Dirtier Than Regular Oil?
• Does the Private Sector Support a Carbon Price?
• Building Bridges with the Private Sector
• Women and Climate Change
• Climate Dismissives Beware