Posted on 09/21/2008 2:41:27 PM PDT by Puppage
The selling of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
The next bubble. Get yours today!!
I’ve got that ocean front property in Arizona that I’d like to auction off!
Wonder if I could draft up some official looking “carbon credit” certificates and put them on E-bay?
I would say they're selling a ointment for liberal guilt. And liberal guilt is far from nothing - it's possibly the most destructive force in the West for the last 50+ years.
That’s my husband’s birthday. Maybe I’ll get him some. ;o)
When you buy a Pet Rock you at least get a rock.
Nothingn says love like carbon credits!
Man, I wish I’d thought of this scam. Taking money from stupid people is normally unethical, but taking money from stupid people who would otherwise wreck the country with their money sounds downright heroic to me.
I bid $0.01. You know what will happen. A bunch of enviro whacky groups will bid on these things and then not sell them.
connecticut, it figures. the hedge fund capital of the world needs a new cash cow, now that they can’t short financials
I’ve got some personal flatulence units I’ll be happy to sell.
“The selling of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING”
Buy a 10 acre plot of land on the Moon instead.
It is cheaper and accomplishes the same thing.
If you have radon gas in your home, I will sell you some radon gas credits..I will even be happy to put the “credits” in a mason jar.
"So much for the media hype about Arctic ice disappearing this summer.
Less than three months ago, NBCs Anne Thompson was warning ominously of ice loss. But this summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it.
Both are still with us the ice and the hype. According to a September 16 National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report, such predictions were off by 1.74 million square miles.
NSIDC reported ice loss was less than in 2007. On September 12, 2008, sea ice extent dropped to 4.52 million square kilometers (1.74 million square miles). This appears to have been the lowest point of the year, as sea has now begun its annual cycle of growth in response to autumn cooling, according to the organization.
Two days after Thompsons report, on July 30, ABC weatherman Sam Champion told the Good Morning America audience that Arctic ice loss was on a record pace. Every summer we're on a record pace for losing it last summer and this summer we're at the exact same pace.
The NSIDC assessment makes it clear that claim was also wrong, calling it above the record minimum set on September 16, 2007. The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era.
Earlier in the summer, media outlets warned ominously that the ice could melt away. Today host Lester Holt described the story as surprising and, frankly, alarming news from the scientific community, a new report that says the North Pole could soon be ice-free.
Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, went on to interview two scientists who said the ice loss was ahead of schedule and had potential dangerous impact on U.S. weather. Scientists say the cause is global warming and that dramatic loss of Arctic ice will impact the weather in the U.S., she said
She quoted Mark Serreze, from NSIDC, warning of the decline in ice cover. If we compare the rate of loss of Arctic sea ice that we see now with what our computer simulations were telling us, we're probably 20 to 30 years ahead of schedule, he explained.
Thompson added that more ice loss was coming. This is what happened last year. Satellite images show the record melt with big patches of open water where ice should be. This year the ice loss is already the size of California, and there are roughly two more months left in the melting season.
This fits an ongoing pattern of media hype about climate change where networks no longer report the issue with any sense of objectivity. A study published by the Business & Media Institute earlier this year showed how rarely dissenting voices were included in the climate debate. The study found that global warming proponents overwhelmingly outnumbered those with dissenting opinions. On average for every skeptic there were nearly 13 proponents featured. ABC did a slightly better job with a 7-to-1 ratio, while CBSs ratio was abysmal at nearly 38-to-1."
This “Greenhouse Gas Initiative” calls for the reduction or removal of petroleum and coal as sources of stored energy to power our civilization. Sorry, can’t do it in ten years. Or twenty. Or a century.
Petroleum is a very compact and easily transformed energy storage medium. We have built most of the infrastructure over the past century on the easy access to coal, petroleum and their derivatives, and to claim now that there is no way we can continue to use that really very plentiful and reliable source, is to say that we should retreat to the caves and trees, decimating our numbers in an endless struggle for declining access to the means to sustain ourselves.
We are not all self-abnegating ascetics and austerity freaks. Some of like to enjoy life just a little, and for an entirely different reason, pick up our messes after ourselves without endless nagging by self-appointed “morality” police. And really ignorant ones at that.
Know this and know it for a certainty: Carbon dioxide is plant food. Without it, plants wither and die. It is our OBLIGATION to increase carbon dioxide to the degree we are able, to aid our plant life on this planet to grow and extend to its maximum limit.
There is no climate “cure”, because there is no climate “disease”. We rely on carbon-based fuel, and the excess carbon dioxide merely goes into accelerated and extended plant growth. So long as we encourage plant growth at every juncture, by cultivation and land management, the content of carbon dioxide shall never rise above about 0.05% concentration in the atmosphere.
Plants require carbon dioxide to conduct photosynthesis, and greenhouses may enrich their atmospheres with additional CO2 to boost plant growth, since its low present-day atmosphere concentration is just above the “suffocation” level for green plants. A photosynthesis-related drop in carbon dioxide concentration in a greenhouse compartment can kill green plants.
Trade them up even for $700 billion worth of bad loans. Kill two birds with one stone.
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