[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .instead he pays someone else to do it...but they aren't actually reducing anything either, they just aren't using the average amount. It's all a bogus shell game.]

Exactly. It's like the farm subsidies to farmers who don't plant and probably wouldn't be growing anything anyway.

[highlander_UW]

If I paid some Bedouin nomad to promise not to install a dishwasher, toaster oven, microwave and furnace in his tent I too can say I'm at a zero carbon footprint...but since he couldn't transport those items anyway nothing has actually changed. Gore remains a hypocrite.