Posted on 02/27/2007 6:01:57 AM PST by truthandlogic
This is a sad reminder of how completely self-serving Liberalism is...
According to the UN study, cow farts contribute more to CO2 emissions than industrialization. For my carbon credit I'm going to buy some Beano and feed it to local cows.
Will Algore pay me to stay on Free Republic all day instead of driving my car over 40 miles a day to and from work?
Somebody is making big money out of all this nonsense.
we need to regulate breathing
What emerged from the Kyoto meeting is that as each country produces CO2, it must be able to contain that CO2 by tree-planting or other processes that can absorb it, such as sequestration and changing farming methods. Or it can reduce the CO2 it produces in the first place. If that country produces more CO2 than it can absorb, it must purchase an ‘absorption ability’ from another nation. The Carbon Credit is this new currency and one Carbon Credit is equal to one Tonne of CO2 and is called a CO2e (CO2 equivalent). A nation might have a shortfall in absorbing 500,000T of CO2 and according to the Kyoto agreement it must seek to purchase those from another nation that has been planting trees for such a consideration. Costs are between US (ironically) $10 – 40 per credit.
So, Algore, show us the receipts!
Yes. I'll take care the paperwork for you, just mail your check to ...
But, I have a couple of questions. How do we know that the GoreBot actually purchased the carbon offsets? Is he issued a certificate by the person who supposedly owned them? And, how many of these offsets can a person sell?
I think I may have answered my own questions. All we have to do is set up a Federal agency to transfer our tax receipts to, let's say, the "Last King of Scotland" and he'll make sure all of his constituents receive their fair share.
Yes, you can stay home, but you have to surf at the DUmp.
...BTW: isn't the accelerated planting of trees, beyond their natural growth patterns, environmentally harmful? I mean it does tamper with the natural order...
You can all laugh, but Goldman Sachs is laughing to the bank to the tune of billions per year in commissions on carbon fees. This is BIG business. One of the biggest around.
It's actually worse than most people realize. That poor sod is going to have to do something with that money (or it's not worth taking). What's he going to do? Buy goods or services. Since his country isn't producing he'll have to buy it from an evil capitalistic society which will pollute more to produce it and then have to ship it to him which puts even more CO2 into the air. This scheme is likely to produce more pollution , not less.
Great comment.
bump
I’ve been buying dihydrogen monoxide offsets.
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