“Ecosystems are always changing at the landscape level, but normally the rate of change is too slow for humans to notice,” said Steven Running, the University of Montana Regents Professor and a co-author of the study. “Now the rate of change is fast enough we can see it.”
Carbon offset credits now cover 91% electricity use - The Phoenix
The college bought its first credit the following year, worth 175 megawatt hours, or about 2% of the campus’s electricity needs at the time. Since then, purchases have increased to 12,000 megawatt hours, 91% of the campus’s electricity needs. Thayer said that he hopes to see the percentage rise to 100% in the next year....
According to Thayer, Swarthmore pays a $.00102 per kilowatt hour premium on top of the cost of the electricity.
Carbon Tax a sad day for Australia Barnaby Joyce
It is the height of conceit to think that other nations such as India or China, which the IMF states that by 2016 will be the largest economy in the world, will somehow be influenced by the legislation of our nation at the expense of their people.We are more guided by Al Gore than by common sense
Taylor criticised green groups for not advancing this argument and instead getting locked into a narrative that has made environmentalists look like they enjoy "beating people in the face and saying: 'I am better than you'".
"I believe that if risk management and insurance had been the predominant green argument for the past few years we would not be in the position we are in [with climate scepticism a powerful force in many countries]," he said.
"Instead the greens have reverted to alarmism and allowed themselves to look as if they like bad news. There is nothing worse than looking like you enjoy bad news.
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