[crazyshrink]

If you are like me you wonder what all this carbon credit stuff is about. I have put together some links in order for FReepers to learn more. I know I did.

[crazyshrink]

http://www.nfu.org/issues/environment/carbon-credits/

[kingu]

Appreciate the links. Now to read what the liberals call it on Wikipedia.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

ill take a dozen!

[barb-tex]

Last month I attended a Timber Producer’s Seminar where one of the papers read was about a Carbon Credit Program. This was about pine trees in East Texas. The program they described, participation required land reforested between 1989 and 1992 in pine trees at 250 trees/acre.The contract was 2002-2011. Income off a 43 acre tract after brokerage,was about $4600 in “Carbon Credits”, if you could find an enviromental wacko to buy them.
barbra ann

[richardtavor]

So, they want to trade something that is not based on production, or actual commodities, and essentially trade it like futures. This is a giant Ponzi scheme, and once it starts selling short, it could collapse the whole system.

[Sarajevo]

This is great! I can scam people by planting grass seed, sitting back, and drinking beer. /sarc

[F.J. Mitchell]

This carbon credits scam, sounds to me like something Mr Haney of Green Acres would be trying to sell to Mr Douglas.

[Popman]

...to earn income by storing carbon in their soil through no-till crop production and longterm grass seeding practices.

Let me understand this:
We are on one hand asking farmers to make biofuels from farmland production and on the other hand also asking farmers to NOT bring their crop in to store carbons?

Typical government efficiencies.

[norwaypinesavage]

I have 12 acres of old growth forest, and through the genius of the government bureaucracies, it is also classified wetlands. It is truly valuable.

I'm accepting bids for not cutting it down. I will deed carbon offset credits, and wetland offset credits (a recent program here in Michigan) to the highest bidder. The credits are good for a year. Cash is accepted.

[Swordfished]

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[Puppage]

If you are like me you wonder what all this carbon credit stuff is about.

That's easy...the selling of NOTHING

[Egon]

I’m storing carbon right now, as we speak.

Oops... exhaled...

Here we go! got some more now...

...dang it! Let’s try again...