Comments on: Carbon Offsets: A Scam of Global Proportions

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:52:15 +0000

Witchcraft was a popular theme at a certain time, and lots of people who had a contrary opinion were publicly chastised for it… You’re labeling TerraPass a scam – how about the US Gov’t!!!! Every time you pay taxes, you pay heavy subsidies to a profit-driven energy corporations scavenging finite fossil fuels . So, why do you chastise an independent entity for supporting alternative fuel R&D via voluntary donations? If you still *believe* that global warming has nothing to do with human activity – I feel like you’re one of the witchcraft people. Believe what you will. And no, science gets no break from the Bush administration, quite the contrary. And the *media* is TOO DEEP in the pockets of the corporate giants who control them via advertising money to be against them. In the publishing business, usually a larger portion (over 50%) comes from advertising revenues, not subscriptions. So, sorry – reality doesn’t support your claim again.

By: Ben Keeler

Ben Keeler — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:54:01 +0000

Good work helping to expose this scam.

By: ecopreservationsociety

ecopreservationsociety — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:01:30 +0000

I agree that there is a lot of BULL in this arena. Buyer beware!

We are doing some work in this area. We focus on personal reforestation projects. Our goal is to teach people how they themselves can be carbon neutral.

I believe that many of the Carbon Offset programs that invest in future technologies, while they may be worthwhile, are not really carbon offsets.

We need to be realistic about this problem. It is going to take us 30 years to replace fossil fuels. It is going to take 100 years to sequester the carbon out of the atmosphere that does not belong there. There are no short cuts, there are no quick solutions we need to take a long term approach to the problem. It is our children that will ultimately need to solve the problem. We need to feed their imaginations and give them to tools to create a better world than the one that we left for them.

Visit http://EcoPreservationSocitey.org if you would like to know more.

By: Colonelc

Colonelc — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:47:42 +0000

Doug,
Thanks for your comments.
I continue to be amazed by the media buying into this scam. I suppose it is akin to “do as I say and not as I do.” The media and extreme liberal bias in reporting and pushing this rediculous agenda will end up bankrupting most ordinary citizens if we do not continue to expose it for what it is. A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Doug Ross

Doug Ross — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:05:32 +0000

Excellent post! What’s especially interesting is the wide range of scientists who object to the hysteria. They get no publicity because it doesn’t match the IPCC’s agenda. The IPCC reportedly controls billions in scientific research dough, so that’s probably one reason. Also, many on the IPCC panel have, in the past, positioned themselves to benefit directly from so-called carbon-offset trading… to the point where left-wing environmentalist groups have routinely pilloried the IPCC for its conflicts-of-interest.

But you’d never know any of that if you relied solely on newspapers for your news. And they wonder why print media is sinking faster than Michael Moore’s rowboat.

p.s., and consider this a manual trackback (trackbacks for this article have expired).

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:15:30 +0000

Rob,
Thanks for the comments.
AS we will soon celebrate the resurrection of the risen Christ I hope those who seek to perpetrate schemes and scams on their fellow human beings will remember the Love of God overcomes all things.

By: Richard Arnold

Richard Arnold — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:44:23 +0000

Huh? Rob, I don’t get it … but thanks for stopping by. – Richard

By: Rob Velez

Rob Velez — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:08:39 +0000

oh the irony! Praise God in the economy of your sin that His love for you was so great that He put on human flesh and poured himself out even unto death so that you would know nothing could ever seperate you from His love.