Posted on 02/25/2007 4:25:46 PM PST by Winged Hussar
You can neutralize the rest of your pollution—through offsets. When you buy offsets, you essentially pay someone to reduce or remove global warming pollution in your name.
For example, when you buy 10 tons of carbon offsets, the seller guarantees that 10 fewer tons of global warming pollution go into the atmosphere. While the pollution you produce yourself is the same, you get the credit for that 10-ton reduction.
(Excerpt) Read more at fightglobalwarming.com ...
""The Sydney-based Easy Being Green says it will mitigate your cat's flatulent contribution to global warming for 8 Australian dollars, or $6. The same company could also make your granny "carbon-neutral" at 10 dollars a year, according to a report in the Australian newspaper last weekend."
Wait until they put a greenhouse gas emission tax on beans. Methane (the primary component of flatulance) is a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Re: Nigerian carbon emission credits; "I have a million tons of carbon emission credits, but I need $2000 to get them out of Nigeria. If you pay me that much, I will split the carbon emission credits with you 50:50." Don't worry, what is going on now is probably just about as reputable as a 419 scam, and so are most of the people behind the "carbon emission trading" movement.
Also, bovine animals and sheep are major greenhouse gas sources (methane from flatulence). I plan to go into the business of not raising cattle and sheep (so I can claim greenhouse gas credits to resell), and I would like to know what kinds of cattle and sheep are best not to raise. I will start by not raising 1000 this year, but I hope to expand my operations to not raising 2000 next year.
>>Aluminum companies in California have already shut down operations to resell electricity (for which they had locked-in contracts) when prices went sky-high a few years ago. In other words, California economics turned them from manufacturers into non-value-adding middlemen. To their credit, I don't think they laid off their workers; they just sent them home and kept paying them.<<
Lets hope that California is not, in this case, a trend setter.
Carbon footprints? Heck, I know it' an old carpet, worn in spots, but those black carbon footprints look awful...go get the Resolve!
I'll buy all your carbon credits, but I'll have to pay you with funny money.
Ill but all your carbon credits, but I only pay with funny money.
Somebody needs to invent a rectally insertable flatulene scrubber which would capture the flattus, separate the oxygen out, expelling it as fresh air, and collect the carbon for use in carbon-fiber, pencil leads or ink, etc. That's what we really need. Now that's recycling!
The very same.
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