Content tagged with “climate-change”

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Cap And Trade
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
August 27, 2022
Words
638

“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…”

Carbon Offsets
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
August 27, 2022
Words
898

“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…”

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 18, 2024
Words
158

“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…”

On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 29, 2024
Words
280

“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…”