Gore buys carbon credits from himself

nuke's news and views ^ | 2/28/07 | nuke gingrich

[grandpa jones]

Al Gore buys carbon offsets as forgiveness for his sin of producing too much carbon dioxide, or something like that. BUT who does he buy these offsets from? According to a story published at Ecotality by Bill Hobbs, he buys them from Generation Investment Management, a company he co-founded, and serves as chairman.

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe…

As co-founder and chairman of the firm … he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn’t buy “carbon offsets” through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.

And it is not clear at all that Gore’s stock purchases - excuse me, “carbon offsets” purchases - actually help reduce the use of carbon-based energy at all, while the gas lanterns and other carbon-based energy burners at his house continue to burn carbon-based fuels and pump carbon emissions - a/k/a/ “greenhouse gases” - into the atmosphere.

I wrote previously that Gore has decided to try and re-frame global warming as a “moral issue”, and the irony of the neo-moralists™ who reject any semblance of traditional faith, but have embraced the global warming cause with true religious zeal. It has become a matter of unquestioned faith - even though Gore himself admitted that the premise of his film was based on exaggerated rhetoric that he described in a 2006 interview as “over-representation of factual presentation”.

[txroadkill]

Did you hear Rush say that he was going to start the "Al Gore Diet"?
That is where he will eat all he wants and then make you diet.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Man, I hope Gore runs. I so want to see him have to answer for all this sort of thing...

[stboz]

The son of a pig is essentially saying, "I paid for it, so shut up!"

[Enterprise]

Bump !!!

[grandpa jones]

preshate 'dat

[vigilante2]

this guy has no shame!

[SoCal Pubbie]

What is a "carbon credit"?

[Wings-n-Wind]

As co-founder and chairman of the firm … he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself,

Thisssssss.... is a REAL snake-oil salesman.....
Maaa-an... I didn't think Algore had it in him....
(Not THAT smart.... methinks)

I stand corrected..

[grandpa jones]

What is a "carbon credit"?
It's a get out of jail free card for polluters

[SoCal Pubbie]

That's what I figured. Sort of like indulgences in the Middle Ages or paying a draftee replacement during the Civil War. But how is it SUPPOSED to work?

[Brad from Tennessee]

A year and a half ago Bill Clinton declared that "global warming" was a greater threat than world terrorism. Al Gore says it is the greatest crisis in the history of mankind. Democrats are building an issue designed to eclipse "national security" which is a Republican issue. Rather than deal with the War on Terror they create a new, scarier boogeyman: "Extreme Climate Change." They effectively sidestep the real issue and proclaim their "Crisis" the greater.

[Blind Eye Jones]

That is right on the money!

[thegreatbeast]

I expected that something was just around the corner when this came out.

BTW, I can set you up with carbon offsets at prices you wouldn't believe.

Get right with Gaia!

[highlander_UW]

They should call them what they are...eco-indulgences.

[PizzaDriver]

Now there is a Great new Sin Tax...

Tax "Personal Use" of carbon credits.

Tax the Certificates that Oscar Attendees received as gifts, too.

Carbon Credits, according to the Kyoto Accords, were to protect jobs and industries; NOT Lifestyles.

[xzins]

This buying of "carbon credits" requires a secular Luther to expose it for the fraud that it is...as Luther exposed the fraud of "buying indulgences (get out of hell free card) and touched off the Protestant Reformation.

The bottom line is the individual. This individual, Al Gore, is telling everyone else how to live and he doesn't want to live that way himself. He buys someone off, hoping we'll all look the other way and PRETEND that Gore doesn't still use more than his "fair" share of energy.

Gore's problem is his Marxist view of things. His beliefs about "fair share" are the problem. On top of that, he has bought into the Marxist idea of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and he sees himself as one of those whose enlightened capability makes him able to claim more than his "fair share" on the basis of his exalted position. He knows that saying that in public....that he's better than the rest -- more equal in George Orwell's terminology -- would not fly with the public. Therefore, he plays this shuffle game with carbon credits.

What a crock.

The real truth is that some earn more, have more, and use more. The marketplace will decide who has more resources and who has fewer.

[Night Hides Not]

They should call them what they are...eco-indulgences.

You need to copyright that term and make a few bucks off of it.

[Old Professer]

Back when Rush's belly burned with the fire of righteous indignation and before his own plunge into compromised matrimony and con-sumptuous greed, he ripped the hypocrites to shreds daily with such cutting comments and built an audience far and wide.

While the Democrat takeover may have rekindled his turgid commentary, it will take a lot more than just one clever one-liner to get me back in his camp.

We can't vote our way out of this march to the sea; someone is going to have to stand on the shore and beat the Lemmings back one at a time.

[Old Professer]

If you have a farm and agree to plant, but not harvest, an acre of qualifying plants or grass you can get paid for 3/4 of a metric tonne of carbon dioxide you didn't emit; someone else buys this credit and emits the 3/4 ton of CO2 from his sludge pots without penalty of purse or pain of social opprobrium.