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Offsetting carbon emissions

lundi 17 février 2020 à 01:00

Delta Airlines announced a plan to become "carbon-neutral". The plan involves ten years of spending. It is not clear whether it includes a specific target to complete the work in ten years.

The biggest weakness in the plan is that it depends on offsetting the emissions, and these offsetting plans are likely to have full effect only over ensuing decades — if they work at all.

Deported to live in hiding

lundi 17 février 2020 à 01:00

The UK deported 17 people to Jamaica last week, 7 of them are living in hiding, afraid of being murdered by gangsters who have threatened them or their families.

Damming off the North Sea

dimanche 16 février 2020 à 01:00

Damming off the North Sea (and thus the Baltic too) would be a feasible and cost effective way of protecting large parts of northern Europe from inundation due to global heating.

However, it would not protect anyone from the other aspects of climate disaster — that should be the preferred solution.

EU backs 32 gas projects

dimanche 16 février 2020 à 01:00

*EU accused of climate crisis hypocrisy after backing 32 gas projects.* The amount spent will be over 30 billion dollars that should be spent on defending the climate rather than destroying it.

UK thugs set up face recognition cameras

dimanche 16 février 2020 à 01:00

UK thugs set up face recognition cameras looking at the door of a shopping center. They put up signs saying "you are not legally required to go through this area", but that does you no good if you need to go there to shop.

They made a statement about what they would do with the videos, but did they promise not to save the videos and do other things with them later?