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1. Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 17:02:16 UTC Ika Makimaki

   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.

   #BlahBlahBlah #ClimateCrisis

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 03:50:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     in reply to

     • Graydon
     @graydon @pezmico For forests to count as sinks, we'd have to cut them and put them in secure long-term storage like nuclear waste.
   • Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 03:50:25 UTC Graydon

     in reply to

     @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.