Just how large an effect has all this global warming media hysteria had? Well, in Sydney, Australia, there is a company selling carbon credits for folks that want to offset their cat’s flatulence. They’ll do the same for your grandmother, too.
Think I’m kidding? As reported Thursday by Bloomberg (emphasis mine throughout):
Governments in rich nations are spending billions of dollars to buy a clearer conscience over climate change. Are they getting their money's worth? Enlightened individuals, those who stay awake at nights wondering what they can do to prevent the polar caps from melting, at least have a growing menu of choices.
To put this in some perspective, a NewsBusters article on Wednesday made the point that all this global warming alarmism is about money. Folks, you have no idea:
The Sydney-based Easy Being Green says it will mitigate your cat's flatulent contribution to global warming for 8 Australian dollars, or $6. The same company could also make your granny "carbon-neutral" at 10 dollars a year, according to a report in the Australian newspaper last weekend.
Then there's Carbon Planet, another company cited in the article. If you are hopping on a short-haul flight between Sydney and Canberra, and feeling bad about the damage you are doing to the ecosystem, you can buy credits worth 23 dollars, for which the Adelaide-based company will guarantee to keep 1 ton of carbon dioxide out of the air for 100 years.
Fascinating, yes? The article continued:
By comparison, the governments that have undertaken to cut greenhouse emissions under the United Nations' Kyoto Convention on Climate Change have chosen a tougher — and more expensive — route to guilt reduction.
[…]
Countries that must purchase emission credits to atone for their higher-than-mandated production of carbon dioxide are paying a tiny group of chemical manufacturers in China and India massive sums to reduce industrial gases and methane, which are rather inexpensive to capture and destroy, Wara says.
However, this scheme will cost developing nations dearly:
The improvement that can be obtained by spending just $31 million on incinerators could cost developed nations as much as €750 million, or $986 million, through the elaborate trading mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, and even then only two-thirds of the problem would go away, Wara estimates.
Amazing. In the end, folks, global warming alarmism is becoming a huge international business with billions of dollars at stake. And yet, as the article concludes: “That kind of money may be a beginning, though it's very doubtful that we will be breathing a lot easier because of it.”
Nice con job the media are aiding and abetting, dontcha think?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Noel...how do we sell carbon
February 23, 2007 - 11:53 ET by bassndudeNoel...how do we sell carbon credits? Where can one get them? Can we just put an ad on the internet and print them off? I get enough of these sold, I can retire early.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
This article reminds me of
February 23, 2007 - 12:03 ET by DyneThis article reminds me of an old Foxtrot strip where Andy is suffering through the Presidential candidate-promoting commercials of the 1992 election. The TV said, "Here's what Clinton economics could mean for your cat!" Since when do cats spend any money?
On another note, these AGW activists are really only digging their own grave by blaming everything on global warming even when there's absolutely no logical connection between GW and the problem. Just like any "wonder drug" released onto the market, there's no way that it could possibly work since there are no two diseases that affect the body in exactly the same way, there is no way that AGW could be responsible for every single thing happening on the planet, especially those that have nothing to do with the climate!
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
Re:
February 23, 2007 - 12:14 ET by DobiusThis sounds like a George Costanza get-rich quick (and through no real effort) scheme.
If everyone here sends me $1,
February 23, 2007 - 13:24 ET by alcatrazIf everyone here sends me $1, I'll try not to fart (err...i mean release any CO2) at all today.
Alcatraz, flatulance releases
February 23, 2007 - 23:00 ET by MikeBAlcatraz, flatulance releases methane (an even more efficient greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide), belching releases CO2. So, if everyone here sends me $1.50, I'll promise not to belch or fart. Now, having said that, I'll have to switch voting party registration to Democrat, 'cause I'd be lying my @$$ off...kinda like Bill and Hillary.
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face piles of trials with smiles(AND UNCONTROLABLE LAUGHTER), IT RILES THEM TO BELIEVE WE PERCIEVE THE WEBS THEY WEA VE
p.s. a better picture would
February 23, 2007 - 12:40 ET by vrwc13p.s. a better picture would have been a toilet showing them throwing their money down it versus cat poop.
face piles of trials with smiles
vrwc13,My sentiments exactl
February 23, 2007 - 14:11 ET by Dave Rvrwc13,
My sentiments exactly.
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Whoa! What a huge opportun
February 23, 2007 - 12:19 ET by The Wicked ConservativeWhoa! What a huge opportunity to help alleviate some liberal self loathing. I'm starting a company where you can purchase carbon credits to offset you're selfish breathing! Yes that's right folks for a very reasonable price I'll plant several trees in the Sahara (once GW is under control they'll thrive there) to offset you're dirty, selfish , polluting behavior. YOU PIG!
Buy now or NewYork drowns!
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Gujarat Fluorochemicals, th
February 23, 2007 - 12:23 ET by Dave in TexasKyoto's great... as long as you're not one of the countries signed on to it. And thank you President Bush for not allowing the United States to be one of those countries.
Hey, why spend money improving your own country's economy when you can pay other countries to improve their economies.
Dave in Texas, this is the logical flaw and the real problem.
February 23, 2007 - 12:40 ET by acaiguanaDave in Texas, this is the logical flaw and the real problem.
Hey, why spend money improving your own country's economy when you can pay other countries to improve their economies.
No one is 'paying' other countries to improve their economies. They are paying other countries to spend money on industrial production sites that already exist and which will not expand one inch from current production levels as a result of the 'capital' spent at their sites.
That doesn't improve an economy. Well, it does transfer wealth.
Transfer wealth? Oh, that's what it is all about.
Al Gore, if I send you my bank numbers would you just put a couple million in my account? I promise to breath only next to really big plants.
ACA
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EASY BEING GREEN
February 23, 2007 - 13:02 ET by PawpawNNot hard to tell why they chose the company name-EASY BEING GREEN. If you believe their hype and pay them money, it's just EASY for them BEING loaded with GREEN(monies). Guess they are just another pooper scooper company!!
It's official. Global warm
February 23, 2007 - 13:40 ET by dahliatraversIt's official. Global warming fever has gotten so ridiculous, it's imitating our jokes.
Funny you should mention "fev
February 23, 2007 - 14:23 ET by gfrrmanFunny you should mention "fever". Check out this nonsense......
http://www.news.com....
Everything causes GW!!!
Just about fell out of my cha
February 23, 2007 - 13:54 ET by RunningBeerJust about fell out of my chair again. Despite near record snowfall in most of Colorado, the Nat'l Research Council is saying GW can severly damage the flow down the Colorado River. Maybe the elevation up there is getting to them.
But what are they going to do
February 23, 2007 - 14:30 ET by kathleenirishBut what are they going to do about the flatulence coming from MSNBC and 'The View'? Let's go to the real sources of hot, smelly air.
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This means one thing. BUY &
February 23, 2007 - 14:56 ET by sarcasmoThis means one thing. BUY "Beano" stock NOW!!!
JMR (The stuff works, and it was the subject of perhaps Dave Barry's funniest column-series ever!)
Let me see if I understand
February 23, 2007 - 16:15 ET by heldmywLet me see if I understand this. Please jump in if I've got it wrong.
Someone, somewhere, gets up in the morning, has breakfast and goes off to work to sell carbon-dioxide 'indulgences' to excuse you for your cat farts...
Is that it? They take a paycheck home for this? Read the trade mags, belong to a union and all?
If you're good, do you get promoted to cow farts? Then what? If you sell an offset for, say, a blue whale, do you get a bonus? ...and what's entry level?
Gerbils?
How did I know this was a liberal...er "progressive" scam, program?
HMW
February 23, 2007 - 16:32 ET by Noel SheppardHMW,
Yeah, that's about it. Of course, you have to wonder if the company's top salesmen get extra time to go outside and light one up! :-) ns
(lol)And once a year, there's
February 23, 2007 - 18:07 ET by dahliatravers(lol)
And once a year, there's a Carbon Credit Sales Convention.
That BETTER be a LOW flush to
February 23, 2007 - 16:27 ET by upcountrywaterThat BETTER be a LOW flush toilet.
Let me get this straight: c
February 23, 2007 - 18:19 ET by ckc1227Let me get this straight: companies are selling credits to carbon output that they weren't producing in the first place, and somehow that creates carbon neutrality? Okay,I'm no mathematical genius, but how is that possible? Nothing has changed in this scenario, lol. I'm still not(and never planned to) producing the carbon that I sold credits to, and the person who bought the credits is still producing the carbon that they already were, lol.
Are these the same people who drew up our socialist security ponzi scheme? PT Barnham is proven more right each and every day in this country.
Reminder: Don't forget to pay your taxes. 12 million illegal immigrants are counting on you.