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The idea behind an offset is that we pay someone to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in a specific, measurable way, thus offseting an equal climate impact on our side.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Dave, offseting the emotional cost of your fight with support from bloggers is, to put it bluntly, not worth much.
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The idea behind an offset is that we pay someone to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in a specific, measurable way, thus offseting an equal climate impact on our side.
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While not even figuring offseting benefits is ludicrous and a very Republican thing to do.
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Lack of adequate moisture or poor soils could also greatly retard growth for trees that are spaced closely, more than offseting any effects of raising temperatures.
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That went some way toward offseting the fact that he had been selected for this mission to spy on Menados.
Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006
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In reality, one area can increase in information/decrease in entropy (earth) if another is offseting it (the sun is losing energy).
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Japan's Nikkei stock benchmark tumbled on Friday to its lowest since the immediate aftermath of the 11 March earthquake, hit by sharp falls in the US market as worries over the global economy dominated the mood, offseting a boost from Japan's currency intervention and monetary easing the previous day.
The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011
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Japan's Nikkei stock benchmark tumbled on Friday to its lowest since the immediate aftermath of the March 11 earthquake, hit by sharp falls in the U.S. market as worries over the global economy dominated the mood, offseting a boost from Japan's currency intervention and monetary easing the previous day.
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These oh-so clever greenwashers are still aggressively promoting carbon offseting even though, a decade on, it has given no benefit in terms of actually reducing our carbon emissions.
The Guardian World News Leo Hickman 2012
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