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...Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for the purpose of developing a cap-and-trade program that would set ceilings on industrial emissions and allow companies that overperform to sell pollution credits to those that underperform-- the same smart, incentive-based strategy that got sulfur dioxide under control and reduced acid rain. And California passed the nation's toughest automobile- emissions law last summer...
Meanwhile, the opportunities to offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
...west to east. But, Wofsy said, it also “wiggles.” Boston’s momentary position relative to the jet stream can wreak havoc on weather forecasts. “Variability of a few hundred miles can make the difference between a storm bringing rain to a region and a storm bringing snow,” said Brian F. Farrell, the Burden professor of meteorology. That makes long-term forecasting particularly tricky. “You can’t predict more than a week or two at a time,” Farrell said...
...Matalin: They are old enough to know, as my husband likes to say, "you make rain or you get rained on." They are old enough to know that there is a consequence for not participating, and you can have a real impact if you do participate...
...blame? The rain, apparently. The morning of the October 2005 testing was so wet that the answer sheets expanded, which meant they misaligned with the scoring scanners. Because the whole process is mechanized, nobody noticed until late December, when two students asked to have their tests rescored by hand (for a fee), which took about a month. Those misscored tests led to the rechecking of the entire year's tests--which was not finished until early March...