Personal net zero? Gas utilities pitch offset plans. | The programs aren’t eliminating emissions from natural gas. Instead, they’re tapping into a huge [and largely fraudulent] carbon offset market.
Personal net zero? Gas utilities pitch offset plans. | The programs aren’t eliminating emissions from natural gas. Instead, they’re tapping into a huge [and largely fraudulent] carbon offset market.
The programs aren't eliminating emissions from natural gas. Instead, they're tapping into a huge carbon offset market.
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What you describe (using fossil fuels) is a worst case scenario and not a requirement. I could turn the argument around and say don't use the heat pumps you recommend because after all, they require electricity, which requires fossil fuels. And then where are we?
You say that CDR is expensive, but it's not. As proof I'll give two examples:
- companies that make and sell biochar
- regenerative agriculture that sequesters many tons of carbon in soil while being more profitable than conventional agriculture
I've seen the efforts on biochar; there are examples of it being done well, and a lot of it being done badly. Without accounting and auditing to track what's going on, you often don't get great results.
Regenerative agriculture is ill-defined, and there's a lot of fraud in that space when it comes to carbon sequestration claims.
Without accounting and auditing to track what’s going on, you often don’t get great results.
You can say the exact same thing about the things you propose... so again, where are we? Please consider this line of reasoning and ask yourself why you're so quick to use it.
Regenerative agriculture is ill-defined, and there’s a lot of fraud in that space when it comes to carbon sequestration claims.
Can you show me a lot of fraud in regenerative agriculture in the context of USDA NRCS SOM tests? I'd like to see it.
That's too specific for me to turn one up; most of it is in the form of people saying "i'm doing regenerative ag, pay me" and doing no measurement and making all sorts of wild claims.
There are some serious limits to its scale as well.
That’s too specific for me to turn one up; most of it is in the form of people saying “i’m doing regenerative ag, pay me” and doing no measurement and making all sorts of wild claims.
Big negative claims apparently backed by nothing.
There are some serious limits to its scale as well.
Gabe Brown's regenerative ag farm is 5000 acres. That's a specific claim. You can even visit his farm in person.