Carbon offsets can best be described as an environmental credit which someone can buy to offset their own greenhouse gas emissions, when one is unable to or unwilling to reduce their own emissions. The best known examples of carbon offsets are tree planting offsets and clean energy offsets, which compensate for car and air travel emissions.
There are many different ways we can accomplish huge co2 emission reductions in our homes, from simply reducing heat loss and increasing efficiency to adapting alternative energies. Not only can you virtually eliminate your net carbon emissions, but you can drastically decrease your monthly energy cost as well.
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Recently Global Warming has come under a lot of skepticism and has unfortunately turned into a debatable political issue. Fortunately and unfortunately, a NASA satellite recently detected proof of huge areas of snow melt in Antarctica in January of 2005. The QuikScat satellite detects snowmelt by using radar pulses that bounce off of the ice that forms when snowmelt refreezes.