silence7

Don't think I was born yet. But I did read The Great Thrist once

This shouldn't be depressing; it means the cost advantage that renewables have is causing them to displace fossil fuel use, at least at a national level in the US. There's the potential for that to start happening globally over the next year.

I don't actually know; try asking Christopher Webb whom I think created it.

I'm not sure he will. The norm for Trump toadies is to last a few weeks or months before ending up out of favor, in jail, or both.

Trump solicited a billion dollar bribe from the oil industry, so now he needs to put money in their pocket.

Same for people who don't live near an airport. There are a lot of planes up there. Not to mention Venus, Jupiter, stars, and the neighbor's kid flying a toy drone.

I'm not terribly surprised; he's been doing neo-nazi dog whistles for several years, and became explicit about it over a year ago.

It's a gift link. If you're not stripping off the access token from the URL, you should be able to access the article without needing somebody to do that.

The problem is that something like 90% of the offsets are fake like this, and of the remaining ones, another 90% have a mismatch between how long gases emitted raise atmospheric concentrations and how long the offset lowers them for.

The EU and China have both done it repeatedly when it makes sense for them.

This doesn't have measures; it's designed to create a situation where other countries are inclined to penalize the US for not meeting this goal.

Sale of raw milk is legal in California, and the cows are widely infected. Bird flu is showing up in sewage in most of the state, which suggests that there are likely to be a whole bunch more infected people who don't realize what they have.