Trading of Carbon Credits.... this is what you don't hear about.

[catsnknots]

The sale of CO2 credits is nothing but wealth generation for people like Al Gore that owns a HUGE company that trades this commodity. 

Read this report and find out what happens to the people of poor countries that the Greens and other environmentalists want you to think we are "helping"..... 

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cs-new-forest-company-uganda-plantations-220911-en.pd...

a concise version... and more of a basic explanation. 

http://www.examiner.com/article/un-and-the-world-bank-now-involved-land-theft-over-carbon-credit-sch...

[lakeland27]

its good to hear a minority view occasionaly. a lot of big money behind these ideas.

[catsnknots]

ok.. so Oxfam is a minority?? 

[lakeland27]

 a story of third world corruption doesn't mean much in the scheme of things.

[catsnknots]

the Third World is where all this money is meant to be invested... the idea of carbon trading is to make a new economy for those in poverty stricken countries so that they don't need to go into intensive CO2 producing industries.... 

We buy carbon credits from Africa and they invest in trees to offset our CO2 from coal fired power stations.... that is what the CO2 market is all about. 

[lakeland27]

 its a pointless discussion i guess atm. let hunt buy up all the carbon credits held here.  when sentiment turns back to evidence based politics it will start all over again anyway.

[lakeland27]

BTW CM , Congratulations on the win. always gracious me .

[catsnknots]

Thanks LL.. 

[not_an_eloi]

yeh. facebook mutual infatuation club can be put to bed now.  

anyhow, gore would be puttin' is money where 'is mouth is, yeh ?

[catsnknots]

Al Gore makes his money from this.. while flying around in his CO2 producing private jet.... but that is ok becuase he buys CO2 credits...