The Christian Science Monitor’s Moises Velasquez-Manoff pokes around behind the rhetorical curtain of “carbon neutral” mantras to see if emission offsets, credits, trading, and other schemes are on the up and up. What he finds is that no agency or system has the teeth to assure that when one buys a carbon credit it means much. One recent non-profit group, he reports, gave poor grades to most claims of that such offsets are real. The topic is not an easy one to cover, nor to make interesting reading. This story has info aplenty, but clearly is just a start. A message to media here is that reporters need to be much more aggressive learning whether widely-publicized actions against climate change are what they claim to be.

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