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Ketan Joshi

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Aus' opposition party has been rightly rinsed for planning to drop 2030 targets. If that matters: why doesn't it matter that the gov't will meet its 43% goal using dodgy accounting?

On the real danger that the media narrative of "climate wars" obscures:

ketanjoshi.co/2024/06/16/t...

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Peder R. Braadland's avatar Peder R. Braadland @braadland.bsky.social
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In addition to the point you raise that plant-stored CO2 is not permanent like atm.CO2, i feel people severely overestimate and misunderstand the forests potential to store carbon. First, its not that big, and second, preservation of old, existing forest is so much more effective than tree planting.

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Peder R. Braadland's avatar Peder R. Braadland @braadland.bsky.social
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Im trying to verify the claim that Norway currently has reduced emissions by 9% since 1990. This is not as easy as it seems - different data sets show different numbers, and there are so many variables - emissions, land use change, uptake, and combinations of the three. Is this intentional?

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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute's avatar QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social
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#AusPol

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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This is a sort-of follow up to my previous post, where I explained how both major parties have been conducting massive (really massive) historical revisions to land-use emissions data. There should NEVER be combined with fossil fuel burning emissions: but they are, and it causes climate delay

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