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Carbon Accounting Compared to Filing Taxes With the IRS
Original: Thinking of Earth's climate as the Internal Revenue Service, carbon accounting is our tax return-- and as with the IRS i
A climate communicator compares Earth's climate system to the Internal Revenue Service, arguing that carbon accounting functions like a tax return. The analogy suggests that just as lying to the IRS can bring punishment, misreporting greenhouse gas emissions offers no path to success, because the climate responds to actual emissions rather than reported figures.
Why now: The vivid IRS tax analogy offers a fresh way to explain why honest emissions reporting matters, resonating amid ongoing climate accountability debates.
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- Thinking of Earth's climate as the Internal Revenue Service, carbon accounting is our tax return-- and as with the IRS if we lie then punishment is a possibility. Unlike dealing with the IRS there is no path to success for anybody in lying about emissions; Earth's climate will… · SkepticalScience@scicomm.xyz · 6
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