Posted on 06/09/2019 1:19:35 PM PDT by Libloather
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It depends. Some carbon-offset projects – which are supposed to compensate for the heat-trapping gases you release to the atmosphere by taking a plane trip, for example – are scams. In one notorious case, the Vatican was presented with offset certificates for millions of trees that were never planted.
Even if a project actually exists, offsets have the potential to go wrong in other ways. Say you’re promised that your purchase will help pay for a new wind farm, but then you learn that the wind farm was going to be built even without the help of offsets. You’d feel cheated, and rightly so. To truly compensate for your pollution, any offset project must be in addition to the normal course of business. For more on this problem and related complexities, see this NRDC overview.
To protect your wallet, you can buy offsets that have been authenticated by third-party certification programs, such as Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, and Green-e Climate Standard. Those programs help confirm that projects actually exist and that you’re not wasting your money.
Some critics argue that offsets are the modern equivalent of “indulgences,” the practice of reducing punishment for sin that was commercialized and much-abused in the Middle Ages. I don’t buy that argument: The goal is to reduce the total amount of heat-trapping gases, and legitimate offset projects do that.
A more compelling criticism is that offsets often don’t address the root of the problem: the lack of cleaner transportation options. So far, the U.S. has largely chosen to build gas stations and airports rather than electric vehicle charging infrastructure and train stations. That makes it tough for most people to lighten their footprints.
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Problem solved. The socialist bartender hardest hit.
Like those Fake Medical Devices that cure dandruff to cancer
Ya think?
And I thought Rome put an end to Letters of Indulgences?
like a couple of hundred years ago?
How about just planting more trees?
They absorb CO2 and release oxygen, It is photosynthesis.
We don’t need to kill industries. Just plant trees. Problem solved, if there is any.
:: the root of the problem: the lack of cleaner transportation options. ::
So, to assuage their guilt, everyone should move to large urban centers and utilize rail and bus systems. What is it with Fascists and public transportation? (Mussolini). Even today, Europeans will tell you how good and reliable their train systems are. Sheep.
Does a bear...?
They’ve always been a scam.
My thought, too when I read the headline.
You know it’s a scam when the EU weenies are using the “carbon tax” to milk the airlines and business jets (who already pay exorbitant fees to operate).
Ya think?
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People should post what they want, and write what they think — by all means. However, I can’t imagine anyone topping your post on this thread, no matter what they write.
“Ya think?” says it all. It really does.
i want to see the accounting for $16 trillion dollars of ecoscam
Is this a trick question??? Duhhhhhh
How many times have politicians (mostly Democrats) promised to solve a problem if we funded something?
War on drugs
War on poverty
War on crime
Fix infrastructure
Taxes raised, programs created yet every one of these problems grew in size.
Even if you believe in man-made climate change, why would you believe taxes can fix it?
Rumor has it that bartender OAC wants to ban sodas. Drink TEA.
The fizz that bubbles up when you crack open a can of soda is carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Soft drink manufacturers add this tingling froth by forcing carbon dioxide and water into your soda at high pressures—up to 1,200 pounds per square inc
Thanks Libloather. Al Gore gets carbon credits by promising not to fart.
The same people are letting the forests burn rather than manage them properly.
Really? How does that work?
If the author of this screed truly believes that gases trap heat (above what their physical properties would suggest), can he please explain the physics behind this? In all of the anthropogenic “global warming/climate change” fear mongering, I never see the fear mongers give a good solid physical mechanism for how CO2 causes more heat that can be explained by normal thermodynamic processes. I’ll bet that they don’t even have any kind of a science education that would enable them to even offer such an explanation.
And no, scientific papers that state “X is occurring because of global warming” do not, in fact, provide evidence of said “global warming.”
when I first heard of the carbon offsets scam, I thought of Angel on the Rockford Files. I can picture a scene where Angel says to Rockford “Jimmy! two words...carbon offsets!”
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