Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Acronyms
The world of international climate negotiations is a wonderland of UN-style acronyms. My favorite is LULUCF, which stands for land use, land use change, and forestry. It's a clunky catch-all for the aspect of carbon emissions and carbon emissions mitigation that has to do, basically, with forests and other greenery - removing them (releasing emissions) or installing them (providing a carbon sink) or otherwise changing them.
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Why don't the climate scientists do like the Republicans and choose a nice sounding phrase and come up with the words to turn it into an acronym? Like they did with the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act.
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