I posted a gift link as the top-level link, so people shouldn’t be hitting the paywall for the next couple weeks anyways. (Note: if you’re viewing through Mastodon rather than lemmy, you’ll need to have clicked the link, rather than the preview to bypass the paywall, as Mastodon strips off the paywall-bypass token on the preview link)
Trump has a pile of stock which he’s not allowed to sell until six months after trading started. It’s more that this becomes a vehicle for the super-wealthy to bribe him if he is elected again — they can do an open market purchase, with Trump selling to them.
Seriously though — if they move you to heat pumps, it can make it cheaper, which means that they end up collecting rent instead of the propane company or oil company.
Forest offsets typically depend on a counterfactual — the idea that if you didn’t buy the offset, the forest would be cut down. So a lot of people who wouldn’t have cut the forest down sell offsets, resulting in no change to atmospheric carbon, but giving permission to others to burn fossil fuels.
And yes, you could rent in a different place from one time period to another, but CO2 concentrations remain elevated for hundreds of thousands of years when you burn fossil fuels, and firms don’t bother with planning for forest-based sequestration over that time period, typically settling for a contract covering only a few decades. So there’s an inherent mismatch between the offset contract and the duration of the damage they do.
Robert MacNeil, Earnest News Anchor for PBS, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
Should We Change Species to Save Them? (www.nytimes.com)
News Outlets Urge Trump and Biden to Commit to Presidential Debates (www.nytimes.com)
‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief (www.theguardian.com)
Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse (wapo.st)
Some Trump supporters who invested in his social media company have seen their share values plunge -— and see it as a test of faith
Biden Seeks to Head Off Escalation After Israel’s Successful Defense (www.nytimes.com)
Why Heat Pumps Are the Future, and How Your Home Could Use One (www.nytimes.com)
New Zealanders Are Crazy for This Fruit. It’s Not the Kiwi. (www.nytimes.com)
Inside the Controversy That's Divided the Carbon Offsets Market | Science Based Targets initiative, the world’s main verifier of corporate climate targets, faced pressure to relax their standards (www.bloomberg.com)