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@carbonplan.org
opinions my own
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CarbonPlan
16 days ago
Verra recently announced that more than half of the credits from the Kariba REDD+ project don’t represent real climate benefits. Our new commentary explains why carbon market participants should treat Verra’s proposed solution to excess crediting with skepticism.
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Verra doesn’t have a good solution for excess crediting – CarbonPlan
Verra recently acknowledged the existence of millions of excess credits issued to the Kariba REDD+ project. Rather than resolving the issue, Verra’s proposed solution exposes a fundamental structural ...
https://carbonplan.org/research/kariba-excess-credits
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This book is so good
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Aatish Bhatia
about 2 months ago
I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With
@fparis.bsky.social
and
@iamrumz.bsky.social
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Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article)
Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/zodiac-signs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kk8.szkP.XAl0cKcnToHu&smid=url-share
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ProPublica
2 months ago
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. By
@abrahm.bsky.social
, w/ graphics by
@lucaswaldron.bsky.social
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1757286480&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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CarbonPlan
3 months ago
California’s offset program is not only deeply flawed, it also costs the state hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. We dive into the details in a new commentary.
carbonplan.org/research/off...
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Offsets are no free lunch – CarbonPlan
Offsets provide few climate benefits and cost California hundreds of millions of dollars each year. When lawmakers reauthorize the state’s cap and trade program this fall, they should eliminate the us...
https://carbonplan.org/research/offsets-foregone-revenue
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Daniel Huffman
5 months ago
An abandoned project from last year. I planned on a "Landforms of
#Madison
" map, but got stuck at the labeling stage because almost none of these features have names I could find. Maybe a 15–20 across the whole map. The state capitol sits on a big unnamed hill. This has downstream effects… (1/2)
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CNG
5 months ago
🆕
#CNG2025
session recording Raphael Hagen &
@shaneloeffler.com
from
@carbonplan.org
share how they went about visualizing GeoParquet data directly in the web browser. ▶️
youtu.be/SsjNPFv5dgI
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[CNG 2025] Visualizing GeoParquet in the Browser – Raphael Hagen and Shane Loeffler
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
https://youtu.be/SsjNPFv5dgI
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Ketan Joshi
5 months ago
How did I not know about this???? It works amazingly well - select 'transactions' and then just whack in a company name. Massively under-used resource here
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Jake Steinberg
6 months ago
We spent an entire paddling season researching and paddling across the Twin Cities to create this guide. The Star Tribune has never put out a guide this comprehensive. Get out on the water, people. It's really the best thing you can do this summer.
www.startribune.com/canoe-kayak-...
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Polar Geospatial Center
6 months ago
Effective immediately, the PGC is no longer accepting new NSF-supported requests due to a lack of renewal funding. Current work is wrapping up. Please contact your NSF program officer if impacted. We’re grateful to have supported your polar research. Read our full statement at
www.pgc.umn.edu
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𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚠 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗
6 months ago
Raphael and Shane
@carbonplan.org
on visualizing GeoParguet in the browser, along with some nerdy details like partitioning and spatial indexing
@cloudnativegeo.org
#cngconference
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Zeke Hausfather
6 months ago
Last week I was playing around with a new "tree ring plot" to visualize daily global temperature anomalies from ERA5. I thought it would be neat to make a version of the plot for daily global absolute temperatures (rather than anomalies):
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CarbonPlan
7 months ago
Want to know how fossil fuel companies use carbon offsets to claim they’re fighting climate change? We've updated OffsetsDB — our offsets database — to allow you to search by carbon credit user. Search "Shell" and see what offsets they're using and when. (1/4)
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Daniel Huffman
7 months ago
The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your
#cartography
community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little).
forms.gle/VaZqPpxeB8Qu...
Please help spread this widely!
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Bill Lindeke
8 months ago
My latest is on the quiet good news of having free "Royale" access to the Transit App.
www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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How Transit App is removing the mysteries of Twin Cities transit use
The Metro Transit “user experience” is improving, especially for those who keep up with technology like mobile apps.
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2025/03/how-transit-app-is-removing-the-mysteries-of-transit-use-in-the-twin-cities/
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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán
10 months ago
When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
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When our community burned where was the satellite information?
Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-our-community-burned-where-satellite-information-pag%C3%A1n-phd-8rxwf/?trackingId=%2FKCJcVemRTq7Lg91wkullQ%3D%3D
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Iegor Riepin
10 months ago
🌍✨ What if your computing jobs could chase the sun and the wind, reducing your carbon footprint as they go? 1/8
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Jake Steinberg
10 months ago
Last year, Bde Maka Ska was ice-free 26 days earlier than usual when I was a kid. My latest:
www.startribune.com/how-does-202...
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How does 2024’s weather compare with your childhood?
See if 2024 was anything like what you remember from growing up.
https://www.startribune.com/how-does-2024s-weather-compare-with-your-childhood/601202878
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Zeke Hausfather
11 months ago
There is a handy tool that
@davidho.bsky.social
helped build to see just that. TLDR is that it’s pretty fast in most places, but there are some bad spots one could do it:
carbonplan.org/research/oae...
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Mapping the efficiency of ocean alkalinity enhancement – CarbonPlan
This new dataset and tool make it easier to see how the efficiency of ocean alkalinity enhancement varies around the world. Developed in collaboration with [C]Worthy.
https://carbonplan.org/research/oae-efficiency-explainer
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J. David McSwane
11 months ago
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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ProPublica
11 months ago
NEW: “Eat What You Kill” Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.
@davidmcswane.bsky.social
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did…
https://propub.li/3VuEki5
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Jake Steinberg
11 months ago
I missed the
#30DayMapChallenge
, but wanted to share something I worked on during those 30 days for a story in my friend's zine about a backpacking trip I did several years back in the Rincon Mountains of southern Arizona.
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Ketan Joshi
11 months ago
To make all of this even worse: ethanol CCS is being falsely sold as a carbon removal offset. This
@carbonplan.org
post is a fantastic, readable breakdown of why ethanol CCS simply avoids extra carbon being released - rather than sucking carbon from the air.
carbonplan.org/research/eth...
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Daniel Huffman
12 months ago
An animated hachure
#terrain
doodle I made last night/today, varying the line density parameter in my script across 30 frames.
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CarbonPlan
12 months ago
Projects that aim to remove carbon by tweaking existing industrial processes can end up avoiding some emissions as well. That’s a good thing for the climate — but it can pose challenges when trying to support these projects through the sale of carbon removal credits.
carbonplan.org/research/cdr...
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Crediting challenges when carbon removal comes with avoided emissions – CarbonPlan
Some carbon removal projects also result in avoided emissions. This is good for the climate, but can pose challenges for individual projects that are trying to earn carbon removal credits.
https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-counterfactual-accounting
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I had a lot of fun working on this tool!
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about 1 year ago
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