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    U.N.’s Carbon Credits Create Perverse Incentives

    By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 9th at 04:00 PM  | 

    It seems harmless enough when an airline offers their customers “green indulgences” in the form of carbon credits when buying a ticket. The credits are intended to resolve the guilt the customer is supposed to feel for his wanton use of fossil fuels. In practice, the credits have become a perverse incentive for practices that are exactly opposite what the U.N. intended when it created | Read More »

    Apocalypse Cow!

    By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  October 27th at 12:31 AM  | 

    On Sunday, we learned that one of the best things we can do for Mother Gaia is to keep the sizes of our families at a minimum. In the final analysis, a human being is nothing more than a CO2 generator on legs. Today’s lesson in Saving the Planet comes from Britain, where the Lord High Poo-Bah of Climate Change, Lord Stern of Brentford, has | Read More »