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June 2, 2007
Carbon Offsets Idiocy Marked by Incompetence and Fraud
Even the lefties at The Guardian are getting wise to the carbon offsets racket. The Clean Development Mechanism supposedly offsets the activities that make the developed word developed by selling carbon credits from the sort of pre-industrialized hellholes envirokooks use as a model for the dystopia they hope to impose on us all. The Guardian looked into the CDM and found "gross incompetence, rule-breaking and possible fraud."
One "senior figure" suggested that up to 20% of carbon credits are bogus. Here I will scoop the The Guardian by announcing that the real figure is 100%, since CO2 emissions resulting from human activity have no measurable effect on the climate, and the entire global warming hysteria industry is a sham.
On a tip from Kevin.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 2, 2007 8:53 AM
Comments
Even pet rocks contributed to the economy. This morning on Cavuto On Business, Charles Payne said that the global warming industry is a great boon to the economy by giving businesses opportunity for development.
Posted by: the paperboy at June 2, 2007 2:25 PM
Pet rocks weren'd predicated on a large increase in regulation and didn't require the creation of a new raft of 'consultants' who are required to interpret said regulations. These carbon credits are a closed, xero sum system that causes a drain on the economy by requiring companies to spend money on something that was previously free, without actually contributing any real value. At some point the virtual value of these carbon credits will crash as it's realised they are worthless, leaving a large number of people insolvent.
Posted by: Archonix at June 2, 2007 2:48 PM
Which is my point. Pet rocks didn't contribute real value to the economy, other than shifting wealth to the marketeers of the pet rocks. Same thing with carbon credits. Just shifts wealth to the carbon credit racketeers. I should've put quotes around "contributed".
Posted by: the paperboy at June 2, 2007 3:00 PM
I'm waiting for Congress to come up with some bill that would require all government agencies to buy carbon credits so the Federal government can be carbon neutral. Just wait. Its got to be right around the corner.
Posted by: kevin at June 2, 2007 3:11 PM
Hmm, I see what you mean now.
Posted by: Archonix at June 2, 2007 4:18 PM
Carbon Credits... the 21st Century's answer to Pet Rocks. Genius.
Posted by: V the K at June 2, 2007 6:15 PM
Breaking news: the latest health scare is now officially warming up (no pun intended) in the bullpen.
The disappearing bee thing never quite took wing (sorry).
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 2, 2007 8:44 PM
I have four acres of land.
I will be out tomorrow burning up organic trash, asphalt shingles, computer parts, and some old dead batteries.
If you know of anyone that passes to the Great Beyond because of this, let me know, I'll send them a card.
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at June 3, 2007 7:23 AM
Selling "carbon credits" is more like selling the Brooklyn Bridge (scams and other crimes are not included in studies on employment or commerce). At least with Pet Rocks, people KNEW that it was a joke and went along with it.
Posted by: KHarn at June 3, 2007 8:03 AM
Footprints in the Sand, The Al Gore Version.
One night Al Gore had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.
This dream interrupted his dream about the never-ending pasta bowl at Olive Garden,
so he was quite agitated as he tried to keep pace with the LORD on the beach.
Anyway, across the sky flashed scenes from Al’s life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the LORD.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
a massive heart attack while giving a speech at a Denny’s
to the six remaining believers in global warming in 2017,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of
his life there was only one set of footprints, and they were very deep in the sand.
This really bothered him and he
questioned the LORD about it.
“Well,” said Al, “this confirms my suspicions about organized religion. The delusion, the abandonment-“
The LORD replied:
“Shut your pie-hole, fat boy.
During the times when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I was carrying your sorry, whining lard-ass. My quads are still sore.”
Al Gore then pointed to some large, black oily footprints.
“What’s that?” he asked.
God replied,
“Those are your carbon footprints, ninny.
While you were lecturing the world about global warming,
that ozone-eating compound you call a home was glowing
so brightly we could see if from Heaven.”
“Huh,” said Al Gore, squeezing his eyes shut in an effort to return to the pasta bowl dream.
God said,
“We’re not done, Nancy-boy. Do you see up ahead, where there’s a large indentation alongside my footprints?”
“Yes,” replied Al Gore. “What’s that?”
“That’s when I fell over laughing when you said you invented the internet, Einstein.”
“And why are my footprints in a circle over there?”
“Election of 2000,” replied God.
“LORD,” said Al Gore, “you have shown me much in this dream. And I see that some of my decisions and choices have been ill-advised. What can I do to change?”
“Simple,” replied the LORD, smiling. “Just. Shut. Up.”
Posted by: V the K at June 3, 2007 9:41 AM
I want to say something cute about that story, but how can I follow an act like that?
Posted by: KHarn at June 3, 2007 3:10 PM
Al Gore is just too good for America. Just ask him...
I don't think that the skills I have are the ones that are most likely to be rewarded within this system.
That would be the system that rewards the dim-witted, sanctimonious, flunked-out off-spring of powerful politicians with life-long fame, wealth, private jets and ginormous, energy-profligate mega-mansions.
Posted by: V the K at June 3, 2007 4:19 PM
V the K,
rofl... excellent sir (or ma'am).
Posted by: MoleOnABull at June 3, 2007 8:18 PM
