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The great cash-for-carbon hustle.

A long piece in The New Yorker digs deep into the carbon offsets market and one of its big players, South Pole. “Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold […]

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Adapting to climate change.

“The remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the twentieth century.” Air conditioners are one of the three adaptations. This reinforces the point that climate predictions that don’t account for adaptation (probably most of them?) are missing something critical. […]