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Offset sellers make it easy to compare prices across projects—but you should also make sure you can trust that your purchase is really keeping carbon out of the air.
The parts of the planet being measured are our land and ocean surfaces: what we call global average surface temperatures.
By shining different kinds of light and radiation through air samples, scientists can tell which gases are absorbing or reacting to that light, and in what amounts
Without new breakthroughs, producing much more biofuel than we do today might be a net-negative for the climate—and would definitely raise our fuel prices.
Although most of the world’s cargo moves by ship, focusing on land may be the best way to reduce the carbon footprint of freight.
The earth’s largest land masses and its north and south poles are warming the fastest, mainly because of differences in how these areas reflect energy from the sun
The earth’s largest land masses and its north and south poles are warming the fastest, mainly because of differences in how these areas reflect energy from the sun.
The phrase can refer to a literal threat to humanity’s existence, but also to the danger that unchecked climate change can pose to our ways of life and place in the natural world.
This greenhouse gas is short-lived but has far greater heat-trapping potential than CO2. The more concerned we are about global warming over the next 10 or 20 years, the more emphasis we have to put on cutting methane emissions
Scientists and policymakers have long agreed that global warming beyond 2° C above the pre-industrial average would pose large and escalating risks to human life as we know it on Earth, and governments have used that number as an organizing principle.
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