More Carbon Credit crimes against humanity?
Category: Carbon credits
Fine Dining in London is Now a Climate Guilt Experience?
“Nudge theory”: Ruthless application of advanced behavioural science psychological manipulation upon unsuspecting diners.
Carbon Credits: The Predictable Unraveling of a Flawed System
Whaddya mean the Indulgences don’t live up to their hype?
Aussie Climate Policy Fracture: States Push Back on Paying Carbon Offsets
“No one asked any of us”: A federal plan for states to share the carbon offset cost of new gas field development has not been well received.
More Carbon Credit Fraud Uncovered: CEO of Verra Resigns
CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless
“Carbon Colonialism”: Four Corners Exposes Alleged Carbon Farming Exploitation in New Guinea
Four Corners: “… US regulators took civil action … Strauss repeatedly and knowingly and/or recklessly defrauded investors by disseminating false and misleading information. …”.
Claim: 90% of Verra Carbon Credits are worthless “Phantom Credits”
The Guardian has accused Verra Carbon, which sells credits to climate champions like Disney, Shell and Gucci, of not being worth the paper they are printed on.
Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself
“We need our forests and other plant-covered areas to provide a ‘natural climate solution’ of removing carbon dioxide from the air, but heat and drought caused by the very problem…
Carbon Offsets: Want to Get Sued? (Greenwashing as Illegality)
The radical environmentalists’ war on “greenwashing” is a major front in the futile crusade for CO2 mitigation.
Guardian: Airlines Using Dubious Carbon Credits to Claim Carbon Neutral Operations
Surprise – According to The Guardian, airline carbon credit “projects had routinely overstated their emissions reductions”.
The Strategist: Navies Must Go Zero Carbon
Don’t mention the “N” word; The Strategist thinks the New Zealand Navy receiving money from the Treasury, then paying that money back to the Treasury to purchase carbon credits is…
Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts
Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Lewis, UCL French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of “carbon neutral liquid natural gas”. Natural gas is, of…
Carbon Credits: Irish Farmers Being Paid to Destroy Their Fields
Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon.
Cuba Shows a Sudden Interest in Carbon Trading
Cuba’s dictatorship has developed a sudden interest in converting the poverty the Cuban people into hard currency carbon credit payments.
EU, UK & Australia Funding Orwellian Personal Carbon Rationing Trials
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The EU, UK and Australia are funding experiments in “flexible” carbon rationing, in which people receive a set weekly carbon allowance, with a mobile app…
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – Successful Model?
Guest post by Roger Caiazza The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is ten years old and has been touted as a successful example of a “cap and invest” pollution control…
Angela Merkel Reflects Fear and Loathing Amid EU Elites…
Interesting Analysis at The Conservative Treehouse. I’m posting only a small portion. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered some rather strongly worded remarks in advance of the upcoming G20 summit in…
Carbon Traders Whine Permits are Too Cheap to Make a Profit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – carbon traders are complaining that over-issuing of carbon permits, a lack of political will to make carbon trading work, has destroyed investor…
Stockholm Environment Institute: Carbon credits undercut climate change action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A report by the Stockholm environment institute claims that a UN carbon credit scheme “significantly undermined” efforts to tackle global warming. According to the BBC;…
The Pope puts the kibosh on carbon credit trading, calling it a 'ploy'
Maurizio Morabito originally observed that the Pope’s climate encyclical was a “damp squib”. For the most part it is harmless, but it does confront carbon credits and a “ploy”, albeit Pope…
California Moves to Revoke Carbon Credits After Inquiry
California, operator of the nation’s biggest carbon market, plans to revoke offset credits issued to EOS Climate Inc. and Environmental Credit Corp. for ozone-depleting substances destroyed at a plant in…
$260 / ton for carbon – the price of salvation
Lord Stern: Models ‘grossly underestimate’ costs of global warming Submitted by Eric Worrall Lord Stern, the British Academic who prepared the “Stern Review” on global warming for Prime Minister Tony…
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