There are 6 item(s) tagged with “climate-change” on this site.
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“This is an economic model used to reduce carbon emissions. A government sets a ‘cap’ on the total amount of emissions to be allowed, and they sell ‘permits’ or ‘certificates’ or ‘credits’ which allow organizations to emit a certain amount against that cap. The goal is to slowly reduce the cap every…”
“This is an expense that an organization can incur to ‘offset’ their carbon emissions. If a company outputs 100 tons of CO2 each year, they can give money to organizations that theoretically enable the removal of that same amount of C02, thus ‘making up for their sins,’ in some sense. Carbon…”
“I enjoyed this book, for what it was. I’m trying to get better about predicting the content and tone of a book before reading it, so I can better absorb it. I correctly predicted this one as a fun trip into some morbid scenarios, and that’s what it was. The author covers all sorts of ways the world…”
“This is another book like On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America . It’s about all the bad things that will happen when the Earth heats up. Also like that book, it doesn’t really have any solutions beyond what’s been discussed already It just explains how things are going to…”
“Interesting book about how climate change is going to change the demographics of the US. I’ve been interested in this in the past: Here’s a blog post from 2010 when I argued that we just need to how we’re going to live with climate change: The Sad Truth About Climate Change Here’s an article about…”
