“Our work shows that California’s forest offsets program increases greenhouse gas emissions, despite being a large part of the state’s strategy for reducing climate pollution. The program creates the false appearance of progress when in fact it makes the climate problem worse.” Lisa Song of ProPublica and James Temple of MIT Technology Review: The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere.

+ California rivers dry, so baby salmon will be trucked to the Pacific. (Who are we kidding. We’re all trucked.)