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No one can say I’m not doing my part to fight GLOBULL WARMING. It took me only about 10 seconds to “purchase” my free Certificate of Carbon Offsets (right) from this site. Now, according to my certificate, I’m the proud owner of one-trillion carbon offsets. Best of all, I didn’t have to contact Al Gore [...]
Blogger ‘Purchases’ One-Trillion Carbon Offsets
November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · Al Gore, Carbon Offsets, carbon offsets certificate, certificate of carbon offsets, Global Warming, GLOBULL WARMING, Gore
My First ‘Carbon Credits’ Offer Arrived in the Mail
November 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments
I knew it would happen eventually and, yesterday, it did: I found my first offer to purchase so-called “carbon credits” had arrived in the mail.
A review of the offer, which arrived in the form of a postcard-size insert inside the envelope carrying my monthly electric bill, left me scratching my head and wondering.
Delivered under the [...]
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Flight Attendant Hillary Wouldn’t Save a Soul
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Married to a flight attendant, I’m familiar with the unofficial motto of those in her profession: “I’m not here to kiss your ass, I’m here to save it!” When I discovered Hillary Clinton had made news for her impersonation of a flight attendant, I began to think about the former first lady and [...]
Tags: · 2008, airline, blame bush, Bush Administration, Carbon Offsets, Clinton, Congress, Democrats, flight attendant speech, frequent-flyer miles, Global Warming, hill force one, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, long delays, lost baggage, Presidential Election, Redistribution of Wealth, ticket prices
Airline Joins Blogger in Calling Offsets ‘Snake Oil’
April 30th, 2007 · No Comments
A headline in today’s business section of the UK’s Guardian confirms what I wrote in Bob McCarty Writes posts here and here:
EasyJet slams ’snake oil sellers’ in offset market and goes it alone
Though I received civil criticism from one high-level industry insider (see comments below this post), I stood firm in leading my counterparts in [...]
Tags: · Carbon Credits, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Offsets Modern-Day Snake Oil, EasyJet, Guardian, snake oil, Snake Oil Sellers, The Guardian
Carbon Credit Projects Yield Few, If Any, Benefits
April 26th, 2007 · No Comments
One month ago at Bob McCarty Writes, I wrote a post, Blogger Investigates Carbon Offsets Industry, that generated a response from one carbon offsets pusher who was very polite but unappreciative of being compared to a snake oil salesman.
Today, I offer another angle on the topic, this time from Financial Times.com, a media outlet that [...]
Tags: · Carbon Credits, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Offsets Industry, Climate Change, Financial Times, Global Warming, In-depth Investigation, Rushing to Go Green
