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Companies Are Buying Large Numbers of Carbon Offsets That Don’t Cut Emissions

12 points by gnicholas 4y ago

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
WSJ criticizing big companies for making profits? That feels a bit desperate. > California’s electricity woes result from man-made climate policies, not from climate change. > Californians narrowly averted rolling blackouts on Tuesday, but the threat looms all week amid an unpleasant but not unusual heat wave. This ought to be a warning about how the government force-fed green energy transition is endangering grid reliability, but Democrats and the media can’t break out of their climate-change conformity to think clearly, or think at all. Their editorial feels even more desperate. It should perhaps be worrying that they consider this "an unpleasant but not unusual heat wave": > One of the U.S. West's worst-ever September heat waves is bringing a prolonged period of record-shattering temperatures to at least a half-dozen states this week. > The big picture: Numerous monthly and all-time temperature records began to tumble in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in California on Monday. More records are likely to be threatened into the coming weekend.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  Where are all of these quotes from? I honestly can't tell what point you're trying to make — are you accusing them of hypocrisy or something else?
  - ZeroGravitas 4y ago
    For context, WSJ are famous climate change deniers, and before that ozone and acid rain deniers: https://www.mediamatters.org/wall-street-journal/wall-street-journal-dismissing-environmental-threats-1976 https://www.mediamatters.org/wall-street-journal/wall-street... So any article where they are worrying about a solution to climate change not working, is immediately suspect. However, if you point out their consistent decades long pattern of science denial, some people will say "Yeah, but all the conservative media denied it when they felt they could get away with it, and now they sometimes print the truth so it's not really a problem and you have to assume that every article they print is in good faith". So linking (which I forgot to do, in this case) to their most recent, blatant climate denial story is always helpful to establish that they are still doing it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-dirty-climate-secret-california-rolling-blackouts-green-energy-grid-11662583198 https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-dirty-climate-sec... Like this garbage, which I quoted but didn't link to, which isn't even just publishing some talking head on the payroll of big Oil or some Republican political troll, which is bad enough, this is the Editorial Board of the WSJ speaking on a highly topical matter of real national and global importance, and its total lunacy.

12 points by gnicholas 4y ago

WSJ criticizing big companies for making profits? That feels a bit desperate. > California’s electricity woes result from man-made climate policies, not from climate change. > Californians narrowly averted rolling blackouts on Tuesday, but the threat looms all week amid an unpleasant but not unusual heat wave. This ought to be a warning about how the government force-fed green energy transition is endangering grid reliability, but Democrats and the media can’t break out of their climate-change conformity to think clearly, or think at all. Their editorial feels even more desperate. It should perhaps be worrying that they consider this "an unpleasant but not unusual heat wave": > One of the U.S. West's worst-ever September heat waves is bringing a prolonged period of record-shattering temperatures to at least a half-dozen states this week. > The big picture: Numerous monthly and all-time temperature records began to tumble in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in California on Monday. More records are likely to be threatened into the coming weekend.

gnicholas 4y ago
Where are all of these quotes from? I honestly can't tell what point you're trying to make — are you accusing them of hypocrisy or something else?
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  For context, WSJ are famous climate change deniers, and before that ozone and acid rain deniers: https://www.mediamatters.org/wall-street-journal/wall-street-journal-dismissing-environmental-threats-1976 https://www.mediamatters.org/wall-street-journal/wall-street... So any article where they are worrying about a solution to climate change not working, is immediately suspect. However, if you point out their consistent decades long pattern of science denial, some people will say "Yeah, but all the conservative media denied it when they felt they could get away with it, and now they sometimes print the truth so it's not really a problem and you have to assume that every article they print is in good faith". So linking (which I forgot to do, in this case) to their most recent, blatant climate denial story is always helpful to establish that they are still doing it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-dirty-climate-secret-california-rolling-blackouts-green-energy-grid-11662583198 https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-dirty-climate-sec... Like this garbage, which I quoted but didn't link to, which isn't even just publishing some talking head on the payroll of big Oil or some Republican political troll, which is bad enough, this is the Editorial Board of the WSJ speaking on a highly topical matter of real national and global importance, and its total lunacy.