I've got generational carbon credits.

We're good 'til 2050.

[Ohiomark:
"Government regulation is always the wrong answer. I can see how you would believe otherwise though, being that Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent."]



Oh I see Mark. Such as:

Stock market regulations

Speed limit regulations

Drunken driving regulations

Air traffic safety regulations

Workplace safety regulations

Child labour regulations

Product safety regulations

Construction standards regulations

Food safety regulations

Water purity regulations.

Pollution control regulations

Banking regulations

etc, etc.

You mean those kinds of regulations..... Mark?

We cannot control the climate. I would hope that is a point of agreement. There are things we can do, adapt, stop building in floodplains, stop coastal development, conserve energy, support sustainable agriculture, invest in R&D for alternatives to fossil fuels.

Of course we knew about these options thirty and forty years ago. Have we successfully acted to prevent our own demise? No. Our politicians continue to pander to Big Money, and we let them.

So now the sky is falling. Let the knee jerk reaction policies begin.

And the climate apocalyptics can rant and rave, also.

No matter how much the climate deniers rant and rave, they cannot change what is happening to Planet Earth as the result of mankind"s release of greenhouse gases since the industrial revolution. People throughout the world are seeing with their own eyes how global warming has begun to impact the environment. Therefore, those of us who have a deep and abiding concern about the future of the human race should not expend a lot of time and energy debating climate deniers on blogs like this. Rather, let"s focus our attention on finding the ways and means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to mitigate the negative consequences of global warming.

Oh, come on, HuffPo`ers. Whoever wrote that article was probably paid by Big Oil. The Goreacle would`nt lie about carbon offsets,,,or anything else, now would he?

It's what happens when the so called free-market forces try to regulate anything. The pockets open up and the cash flows in. This while our planet continues it's downward spiral.

Government regulation is the only answer.

Doesn't it depend on what type of offset you're talking about?

Carbon credits IS a scam. I e-mailed Gore to ask why he would even consider such a thing. I received a laundry list of how it would help corporations, bingo. To help corporations will not help the average joe one bit. It's all smoke and mirrors to allow big polluting corp more time to pollute. Thanks Mr. Gore but on this issue you are wrong.

I'm glad people are starting to see this nonsense for what it really is!

I think the whole carbon offset trading amounts to a new funny-money market, a parked car burns no fuel, and these people are going to milk every plug nickel that they can out of the current status quo instead of just focusing on things that'd really accelerate change, like putting 'green' fuels heavily on the market.

There's two places that we really burn the old dino-juice, one is transportation, the other is heating purposes, furnace oil etc. We need to learn how to do both tasks without using oil imports. Chase out the 3-card-monte 'environmentalists', and get down to the brass tacks of how to get through a work-week without enriching OPEC et. al....

Shhh.....can't we just let this drop? I've been printing out carbon credits off my computer for months now and selling them to kids in the junior high school's ecology club for 10 bucks each. They feel better and I have beer money.

I'd hate to see it end.

Follow the Goreacles money right to Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. This looks like Buggywhips.com from the dot.com bust. Say didn't Algore have something to do with that too?

You can't reduce energy consumption by producing more energy. Malthus is still alive brothers. Foresting the Appalachian Mountains with wind mills.Incidentally these are built with taxpayer subsidies. Investors are rushing in to claim the best mountain peaks. You pay a premium for the juice. It's not going to solve anything. Produce energy till the earth glows red. We'll all be warm.
Rabbit

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

lets get some folks in here that were shot down yesterday on the UN disagreement post. this is insanely ironic. the global warming terrorists wear no clothes.