Quick reminder that at least a decent chunk of the forests *still burning* in Canada were part of the "offsets" countries and companies pay for as credits in Carbon Trading schemes meant for them to keep polluting guilt-free.
The "offsets" are now in the atmosphere heating the planet. As well as the original emissions.
Good stuff. /s
That's part of why Emissions Trading Schemes are little more than fancy accounting and should never be accepted as Climate Action.
@pezmico "Sequestration" is meaningless if it's not on a geological time scale, many millions of years.
We don't know how to do that and the not-obviously-crazy approaches (pull CO2 from the air, make graphite from the carbon, back fill a coal mine with the graphite) not only have immense energy costs, we'd have to be confident some capitalist wouldn't see it as an opportunity to mine the graphite as high-quality thermal fuel.
So, yeah, scam.
@clacke @pezmico Nuclear waste doesn't need to be in gas-tight storage for ten million years; one thousand is excessive. Sequestration is the harder problem.
Amazing how people are far more scared of spent reactor fuel than coal ash, isn't it? And how the "more radioactive" part of the coal ash has no cultural knowledge traction whatsoever.
Fossil carbon companies have spent money like water for generations to create very specific fears of anything that might alter the status quo.
@mansr @clacke @pezmico And here you would appear to make the same mistake those folks are making by using a moral frame of goodness.
Materially measured tangible objectives turn out to work a whole lot better. (Look at how much mammonite rage there is at the US EPA, which exists to reduce pollutants to within measured limits. Versus a willingness to express all kinds of moral statements about carbon footprint.)
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