“Alternative, market-based risk models are cropping up in parts of the country to better assess the risk and deploy fire- suppression resources where they’re needed most. When the risk is accurately assessed, it should incentivize more prescribed burns, timber harvesting, and installation of fire- resistant materials on homes and other buildings. But even then, it is challenging because most often reducing the fuel load is out of the hands of the home or business owner.”
How climate change alarmists are actually endangering the planet
“This alarmism is not only false but morally unjust. It leads us to make poor decisions based on fear, when the world not only has gotten better, but will be even better over the century.”
Nature-Based Solutions Can Reel In Multiple Climate Benefits, But Energy Systems Not Off The Hook
“NBS can help cushion the impacts of warming, but not sufficiently to allow any relaxation in the ambition or urgency of meeting emissions reductions targets.”
The Amazing Secret To Cutting 25% Of Carbon Could Be Under Your Feet
“One such company, Soil Carbon Co., based in Australia’s New South Wales, claims that by tailoring communities of microbes that live within farm soil, humans can potentially turn back the clock on human emissions while producing better crops.”
Climate change has a cow and worm problem
“That’s a large discrepancy, especially given how much domesticated livestock is already contributing to climate change. Livestock make up 60 percent of all the mammal biomass on Earth, and livestock industries are responsible for more than 14 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.”
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right)
“Woodall and his advisor Jennifer Wilcox, a carbon removal researcher, are among a growing number of scientists exploring ways to accelerate these otherwise slow reactions in hopes of using mining waste to fight climate change.”
5 Things To Know About Hurricanes And Climate Change After The Vice Presidential Debate
"In summary, the consensus on climate change and hurricanes is that we will likely have fewer of them, but when they occur, they will be stronger (on average). There also may be changes in their forward speed, rainfall production, and latitudinal extent. I encourage the public, media, and policymakers to discuss hurricane - climate change connections properly."
Four Reasons Alarmists Are Wrong on Climate Change
MasterResource, a free market energy blog, outlines four reasons why alarmists are wrong about climate change.
Carbon Markets Program Puts More Nonprofits On Path To Increase Land Conservation
As Forbes’ Jeff Kart reports, a new carbon offset program from Finite Carbon and The Climate Trust is opening the door for nonprofits to increase land conservation. A new pilot program from Finite Carbon and the Climate Trust is giving nonprofits and farmers and ranchers access to carbon offset markets. Having access to these markets...
One major obstacle to China’s new climate goals: its thousands of new coal plants
In order to decarbonize by 2060, China must stop investing money and opening its coal-fired power plants.