Sometimes, carbon offsetting helps to fund a cut in emissions elsewhere, like preventing deforestation– it helps countries that struggle to meet their emission reduction target or want to pursue less expensive emissions cuts. The EU and other countries seek to avoid double-counting, in which emission reductions are counted twice: first by the country that purchased […]
Supporters insist Bitcoin is a hedge against “roaring” inflation and say this is “just the first leg in a moonshot.” Skeptics, by contrast, see a Bitcoin bubble as the most extreme example of the euphoria driving up markets across the economy. Over the past 10 years, “crude-oil prices have risen and fallen sharply but ended […]
They used historical trend data from the Twitter Trending Topics Archive. The report included a case study of a single campaign to trend “#ModiMeinHaiDum” on March 19, 2019: The first tweet was issued at 7.47am; by 9.30am, it was trending across India with 4,800 uses of the hashtag. We did not fact-check the pre-written tweets […]