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Digg - Top 5 Science Standards to Make Carbon Offsets Work Better
The proliferation of voluntary carbon offset programs seems like a great way for individuals to help fight climate change.
But do carbon offset programs really work?
Learn about five of the key standards for making them more effective in the fight against climate change.
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I wonder how many people are doing this, and whether the numbers have decreased since fuel prices -- and I assume airfares -- have gone up so much.
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I hope science will create a magical pill that will increase the size of my penis.
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Buy Carbon Credits!
Make Al Gore rich (er)!
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We're so self-important.
Everybody's going to save something now.
"Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet.
Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet.
Compared to the people, the planet is doing great.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us.
Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles ...
Hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages ...
And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn't going anywhere.
WE ARE!
We're going away.
Pack your
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This doesn't answer the better question, which is does it really matter if we reduce carbon emissions a few percent?
Or, by how much would we need to reduce carbon emissions to have a meaningful impact?
I have no doubt bailing out a sinking boat with a spoon reduces the amount of water that would normally be in the boat, but if its still going to sink anyway and my efforts only delay that by a second or two, my efforts might have been spent doing something else.
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Yes lets all get rid of carbon dioxide.
Maybe when all plant life dies, because of we eliminate carbon in our atmosphere, we can all get Nobel Prizes.
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I would just like to say to any big polluting companies out there: I'm willing to be your carbon offset.
I'm not polluting nearly as much as you, so if you would like to pay me a lot of money, we can balance each other.
I'll even plant a few saplings.
What do you like, Maple Trees?
Cottonwoods? Heck, I already have a row of volunteers growing on my property line.
Just email me and I'll tell you where to send the check.
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The Top 10 Reasons Digg Users Like Top 10 Lists In the Top 5 Countries Who Use the Top 15% of the Internet For the Top 10 Popular Stories....
Christ
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Could you mail this check to the National Organization for Women so I can go home and beat my wife?....er...
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I hope you hippies enjoy
George Carlin at his best ยป http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljNDbKpusT0
RIP
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Scam...suckers....Big Al will laugh all the way to the bank.
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Cool now I can cut down a few acres of rain forest to build my new house and just make a donation to a Carbon Offset program!
I'm sure Al Gore will tell me how proud he is.
That is if he can get to his phone - he's either in his big mansion that he had built or on his private jet.
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Al Gore's bank account is growing strong.
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In the global warming equation, putting carbon dioxide into the air is only one of three main ways human can warm the planet.
By adding heat to the air is also another factor.
The third major way is to increase the heat absorption of the surface of the planet.
Basically just by existing, we contribute to the warming of the planet.
If those on the left take their jihad against global warming to the extreme, I can see us all living in environmentally controlled bubble cities where our reproduction rate and maximum age are strictly limited with enforcers hunting runners who try to rebel against the "greater good".
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What a load of crap.
Buy offsets to make you feel better about how much of a carbon footprint you have?
So, as long as you have enough money, its not necessary to be responsible with your energy usage?
Next they will force everyone to buy carbon offsets.
And as mentioned before, who benefits from it?
The groups that are promoting it (Al Gore?).
Meanwhile the third world countries spew more trash into the air than we ever did, and no one seems to care.
Biggest scam ever.
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I ran over my neighbors cat yesterday!
I felt so bad I donated $5 dollars to the Humane Society and now everything is fine!!
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Another option that is very direct is to buy stock in renewable energy companies or renewable energy mutual funds.
And you might make money too, unlike a carbon offset.
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Carbon offsets--I think a better name is carbon indulgences.
Where's Tetzel when you need him?
"As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the planet from warming springs."
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Buried. More carbon footprint .
Notice they stopped calling it "global warming" and started calling it "climate change" ?
Gee I wonder why that is....
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Get rich scheme hasnt hit its end yet?
Are people so dumb to believe this
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At first it was the "Theory of Global warming".
then it became "Global Warming"
then it changed again to Climatic Change
whats next?
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The Pope used to sell "offsets".
Carbon, the sin of the 21st century.
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So to whom do proceeds from these offsets go to?
God? Nature?
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So much , so little time.
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Why does it have to be "or" Why not do both: decrease consumption and at the same time donate money to make it financially possible for a business who has to stay competitive to reduce carbon emissions.
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Buried 4 supporting
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