Anybody who believed global warming was man made are having questions now?

[Spankey]

Soleron said:

Spankey said:

Soleron said:
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It's the massive industry that's grown out of this that I'm opposed to.

Social and environmental responsibility I'm all for though.

I don't want to live in a dump, but I'll be damned if I'll pay for carbon credits. It should be common sense, not scaremongery and extortion like some kind of environmental protection racket.

Carbon credits are a stupid idea that could never work properly. It's impossible to regulate the actual effectiveness of the offset schemes for a start.

This debate needs to shift from 'is it happening or not' to 'How best can we move towards efficiency and away from fossil fuels?'. Because the former has no resolution (all the evidence in the world couldn't shift some people) and doesn't actually affect the nature of the right course of action.

*TCP/IP based High-five*

 

edit: to your adendum, I dunno...Penn and Tellers reaserchers (might as well ready the club and baby seal) say the carbon credit and related industry in US alone is worth over $20 Billion...only God knows what it's like in more hippy parts of the world...