Carbon Scam Ping - (POGW)
Posted on 02/20/2009 8:21:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (Reuters) - Air travelers are paying vastly differing prices to offset their contribution to climate change, in some cases three times market levels, despite efforts to increase transparency in an unregulated market.
Under a regulated carbon market, countries and companies buy offsets to help them meet binding international climate targets.
Prices have halved in recent weeks as recession reduces industrial output and expected emissions.
But prices which consumers pay in an unofficial market have lagged behind those falls.
Carbon offsetting is offered to tourists and business travelers by many airlines and offset developers so as to allow people to justify flying by funding a carbon reduction project elsewhere. [snip]
Buyers pay per ton of their expected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for example for taking a flight.
The money helps fund projects which reduce emissions elsewhere, such as planting trees or trapping methane emissions from waste dumps in developing countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
idiots
Follow the money. It would be interesting to trace the money on these carbon offsets. Maybe some enterprising journalist will do that.
If anyone needs a carbon offset, I will be reforesting my backyard. Just send me money and I will get right on it.
Coming here soon.
Incredible. The inmates have taken control of the asylum; poor 'ol Blighty.
Carbon Scam Ping - (POGW)
The nation that figures out tourism which avoids charging these ridiculous left leaning ideas is in for a helluva surge in tourist cash ....
The question is, “who” are they paying?
Carbon Offets are the biggest scam in the history of scams, the biggest scam in the history of mankind. It will make Oil for Food look like penny ante.
we got a ten pound bag of sh**
a five pound bag of sh**
and a one pounder.....and if you act now, we’ll pay the shipping
Ridiculous.
The goosestep that laid a golden egg.
You have to love these ‘save the earth’ nut jobs redeeming their sins with carbon credits.
They should also sell insurance against hobgoblin attacks.
Maybe I’m getting senile, but how does buying a piece of paper reduce carbon emissions. If anything the carbon footprint to manufacture the paper increases carbon emissions.
Al Gore sells indulgences.
Maybe some enterprising journalist will do that.
Maybe what/who?
You’re not senile, you’re smart enough to spot a ponzie scheme when you see one.
Al Gore:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528
Can I get paid for my spring planting?
“Al Gore sells indulgences.”
You got it. This is tyranny.
Amen to that.
We need a new Reformation. Against the Religion of Environaziism
I’d like to double or triple my carbon footprint, so I’d be very happy to accept money from liberals who want to pay to reduce their’s! They can give me their money (doesn’t matter if it comes from cheating on their taxes or stolen via the porkulus or a ponzi scheme or even some sort of political campaign money launder) and then assign their carbon use to me!
Then, we can all be happy - they will **feel** better due to their “good” intentions, and I will be better off with my larger carbon footprint!
I want those who are pushing this multi-billion dollar fraud to be prosecuted. Al Gore and all.
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