Carbon confusion

Boston Globe ^ | March 11, 2007 | Beth Daley

[GQuagmire]

BARNET, VT. -- Sara Demetry thought she had found a way to atone for her personal contribution to global warming.

The psychotherapist clicked on a website that helped her calculate how much heat-trapping carbon dioxide she and her fiance emitted each year, mostly by driving and heating their home. Then she paid $150 to e-BlueHorizons.com, a company that promises to offset emissions

[turbocat]

Ads on Steisand's site - what a hoot.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I'd like to send some moonbat friends to your site, but I'm afraid they won't be able to go through the steps necessary to get their grass to the celebrities because they have to receive their mail AND send it back out.

Maybe you should offer a service for a small additional charge where they can type in their message to the celebrity online, and you could print it out and mail the grass directly to the celebrity while the purchaser prints the certificate out over the web on their home computer.

That way, your C2O would be so easy a caveman OR a liberal could do it.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Moreover, the project received a “dirty dozen” award from a New England environmental group in 2004 because it burns the methane as fuel to incinerate contaminated water from the landfill, emitting tons of pollution each year in the process. This method of destroying methane can emit more pollution than other burning methods

I don't understand the enviro's problem here: They'd rather keep the contaminated water AND the methane rather than burn the methane ???? Since the methane IS a "global warming" gas (har, har) then wouldn't the enviro's DEMAND that it be burned?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good point: Every tree emits as much CO2 (though more slowly) as it decays (or gets eaten by termites - then turns into CO2) as it does when burned.

[azhenfud]

I've inherited boocoodles of carbon credits from dead Democrat voters...;-)

Reckon Al would like to buy some?

[turbocat]

That's the way I had it set up originally - I would send all Celebrity Offsets out in the mail as part of the program... I need to rethink that.

[Red Boots]

I read the entire article, and here's the key paragraph:

Because there is no one standard in the voluntary market, the offsets being sold to people are often like money made with your own Xerox machine," said Seth Kaplan, senior attorney for the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. "People can't be sure if what they are buying has any value."

IOW: it's money for nothing !

[goldstategop]

Of course it has no value! Its banned for sale on eBay for precisely that very reason.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus