I understand the motivation of the scammers: running from pure greed ('Carbon Credit Marketing'), to power-hungry socialists who perceive this as another way to achieve big government control. But I don't understand why this scam still seems to have legs with the 'scammees' (the public at large) ... Maybe it doesn't -- but it seems most people still buy into the nonsense that we have to do something 'now' -- lest all kinds of 'bad stuff' happens (although being a slightly toastier few degrees warmer isn't the worst thing that could happen -- even if I believed this nonsense)...
The people who are only looking for sound bite answers and solutions can feel good about themselves by donating money to a cause, without ever having to get off their couch.
I am not sure how old you are, but while I was growing up, in school all we heard about was the coming ice age, and how oil would run out, and over population, and, and, and.
My wife grew up hearing about how she was living in the end times, and probably wouldn't make it past puberty. The Pope was a double, put in place when he visited Poland, and so many other world ending things.
Now, if global warming is the worst we have to worry about, times are good. Bring on the drinks with umbrella’s in them, women in bikini’s, and abundant long lasting growing seasons.
Oh, it does.
Perhaps a quote from Men in Black would help explain it..
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky and dangerous"
Bottom line is, when you lump them all together they fall to the lowest common denominator, they're just plain dumb.