What do you think? Are carbon offsets going to solve global warming in one-fell swoop? Are they just one piece of the puzzle? Or, do you think they’re entirely booooogus, and should be relegated to ideas junkyard, along with Flowbees, Betamax players and cases of New Coke? Have you bought carb…

Carbon offsets and credits are popular in Europe where there is an actiuve carbon trading market. Buying carbon offsets for a trip is a dicey situation, since the companies that are supposed to be planting trees or other do other mitigating activities are mostly fly-by-nights. At this stage I would …

Selling carbon offsets to the public is a silly “feel good” activity, but the concept does work on a large scale. If two companies have large scale activities that produce large CO2 emissions it may make economic sense for one to help finance their carbon reduction efforts by selling credits to ano…

They may work - assuming ‘global warming’ is a reality, and it is largely caused by humans. I find it hard to believe that computer models can accurately predict the weather centuries in advance, when they can’t even predict accurately the weather for next week. Anyway, I won’t get into a ‘global w…

There is no reason that they will not work as well as other pollution credits that have been around for decades. For example, I’ve seen power companies that operate nuclear power station sell their unused credits to other utilities and use the revenue to offset their operating costs. I have also s…

I suppose on a large-scale industrial application, I can see how these credits may be useful. But individuals buying credits won’t work, I don’t think. It makes the individual feel better (and makes their wallet lighter) but they don’t do anything different and anything the credit seller does (assum…

“I find it hard to believe that computer models can accurately predict the weather centuries in advance, when they can’t even predict accurately the weather for next week.” Global warming is a climatological phenomenon, not weather. Weather is short term, climate is long term. And there is still c…

I recall reading somewhere that a study was done which showed that increased CO2 levels came about AFTER a rise in global temperature throughout the Earth’s history. Thus, CO2 levels increase as a result of increased temperature, not the other way around. I’ll have to find that study again. In any …

" In any case, increased CO2 levels are encouraging plant growth in the Sahara desert, shrinking the desert, but making more fertile and farmable land, and more land in which to live on." I only found one scholarly reference on this subject during a quick search. A Florida State climatologist and …

I have not used carbon offsets but have you heard of “water4gas”? You can get the best idea from their website http://water4gas.com/2books.htm?hop=sfnet11&gclid=cpwn--qcjzicfqzbhgodve7m-w The idea sound incredible. goernie

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Joseph_E_Meehan March 22, 2008, 4:55pm 6

I fear that most “carbon offsets” available today are really ways of making money for doing what you should be doing anyway. Having your customers pay for required pollution control.

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