Fiddling with carbon offsets while California burns

Wildfires expose major flaws in the carbon offset market as it moves toward record volume, securitization

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The monstrous Dixie Fire, which already has burned 721,000 acres in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada, is about 40% contained. It’s been burning for more than a month. Photo: Cal Fire.

(Mark Hulbert, author and l…