[the invisib1e hand]

great title. a little wordy, but great analogy.

[KJacob]

is a $55 million per year industry, involving over three dozen companies worldwide

With all the talk on these offsets I certainly thought it was a bigger operation. Thirty-six companies worldwide generating $55M is pretty small.

[goldstategop]

Global warming as a hoax and its carbon offset indulgences are a lovely financial racket. It will milked as long as people feel guilty about harming Mother Nature and given the growth of paganism on the Left, there are plenty of these twisted and misguided souls on hand to keep it going for quite some time.

"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

[SteamShovel]

profiling one of the leading companies in the offset business, Native Energy. It’s an exposé on the need for governmental regulation of the budding industry.

Regulate the Carbon Offset Business?

They ought to outlaw it. These businesses are nothing more than scams. One day, the masses will figure it out and there will be h€ll to pay. I can see a large market "Carbon Bubble" popping like the "Dot Com Bubble" did. The result will be economies plunged further into recession or depression after the initial damage from lack of economic development from irrational green policies.

[dbwz]

This carbon offset brokerage business sounds like it might be a worthwhile deal. Seems to be an unending supply of guilt out there to be taken advantage of.

But what a coup for limousine environmentalists everywhere! They've come up with a system that allows them to keep all their trendy trappings and still be able to preach from the greener-than-thou pulpit.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I said from day one that these things were unaudited meaningless gestures.

I suppose that makes me meanspirited.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

See, in the liberal mind, it’s better to “care” about a problem than it is to actually solve it. ....... liberals would rather make the effort to convince you how much they can empathize and “feel your pain,” than they would to actually do the hard work of implementing policies to fix the problems or reduce the threats.

Distilled Liberalism. Its very essence.

LIBERAL

[Mike Darancette]

There is one company in the UK that sells you offsets and then gives foot powered treadle for the pumping of water in 3rd world villages, supposedly to keep them from getting fossil fueled or electric pumps. The third world laboring to absolve your sins.