Is Purchasing Carbon Offsets Similar To Naming A Star?

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[OneLoyalAmerican]

Purchasing carbon offsets brokered by AlGore reminds me of the sales gimmickry surrounding the “Naming Stars” routine; except with star naming, everyone understands from the onset, it’s a novelty item.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Sure, you've named the star, but who really gives a rodent's behind what you've named "your" star?

[bigbob]

I think of it more like being grossly overweight, but paying someone else to diet.

[I see my hands]

"carbon offsets"

I've got 'em for sale. FM me.

[wagglebee]

LMAO!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I do

[dblshot]

Does anyone know if Al Gore uses chlorine in his pool or does he have a bromine system? If he is using chlorine and heating his pool he is really contributing to the hole in the ozone.

[avacado]

Perfect analogy!

[Doc Savage]

My home star is K-Pax!

[Dallas59]

I wanna be a carbon terrorist!

[avacado]

"Does anyone know if Al Gore uses chlorine in his pool or does he have a bromine system? If he is using chlorine and heating his pool he is really contributing to the hole in the ozone."

He does use chlorine in his pool but he is paying me not to use chlorine in my pool. /humor

[Hegemony Cricket]

Maybe we could just start naming the carbon emissions?

[OB1kNOb]

Is Purchasing Carbon Offsets Similar To Naming A Star?

It's more like paying indulgences to have our carbon sins forgiven by the Church of Ecology, as one person on Hot Air commented.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings bigbob: I think of it more like being grossly overweight, but paying someone else to diet.

Right on the money.

Reminds me of Je$$e Jack$on'$ "rolling" hunger strike a few years back.

Cheers,
OLA

[LowNslow]

Plenty of real Carbon credits for sale.

Five bucks and a pint will allow the purchase of unused credits on the streets of most cities.

[Nevadan]

re: Purchasing carbon offsets brokered by AlGore reminds me of the sales gimmickry surrounding the “Naming Stars” routine

That occurred to me too!

[HOTTIEBOY]

Is it just me or does Al Gore really look a lot like... Jeffery Jones?!

[justche]

hmmm, you can do that?


;=)

[bigfootbob]

I think it's more like ENRON.

[keepitreal]

I think of it more like being grossly overweight, but paying someone else to diet.


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LOL Is that how Al is keeping his perfect figure these days???

[Erik Latranyi]

Go ahead and GOOGLE "carbon offsets".

You will find plenty of organizations willing to take your money in exchange for these 'credits' that really don't amount to anything.

In fact, the paper they are printed on or the bandwidth used to transmit the credits probably uses up a good deal of carbon itself!