"Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
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Um, it may be disturbing for you to admit, but Big Oil and Wall Street
are heavily into the carbon credit trading market.



I have posted this before but I think it fits right now:

Al Gore has stated that he bought carbon credits to offset the energy
consumption of his house. Near as I know, there is no requirement (yet) to
buy these carbon credits, no issuing agency and, near as I know, no
regulation as to what they are or where the money goes. It would appear
that, under the circumstances, anybody with a printer and a little design
skill could print up a few million of these things and get rich selling them
to those that feel that throwing their money away somehow offsets their sins
against the environment with the only real result being adding to the wealth
of the issuing company. Kind of like a televangelist. "Send me your money
and God will love you for it". The only "love" in the business is the
televangelist "loving" the fact that people are so gullible as to send him
their money.