Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California
- Written by Shane Coffield, Postdoctoral Scientist in Biospheric Sciences, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Redwood forests like this one in California can store large amounts of carbon, but not if they're being cut down.Shane CoffieldMany of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal.
On paper, carbon offsets appear to...
