Our good green overlords

Does it seem odd that those who preach global warming abstinence engage in a orgy of global warming activity?

A single cross-country round trip on a Gulfstream IV, or GIV, the model owned by Feinstein’s husband, churns out about 83,000 to 90,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, experts say. By contrast, on a per capita basis, the average American produces 50,000 pounds from all activities in an entire year. ~latimes.com

Gore also flys on private jets spreading the global warming message, warning that civilization is in danger from those unwilling to change their their evil unenvironmental ways.

So what is it with these hypocrits?

But Gore purchases “carbon offsets,” to lessen his environmental impact. Uh, yeah.

So, where does Gore buy his ‘carbon offsets’? According to The Tennessean newspaper’s report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management. a company he co-founded and serves as chairman:

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe…

As co-founder and chairman of the firm Gore presumably draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn’t buy “carbon offsets” through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks. ~ecototality.com

Incredible. It actually gets worse! Hee, hee! I love it.

As one commenter posting on a few blogs covering the Gore story yesterday put it:

Hmmm. The Goracle is chairman and a founding partner of Generation Investment Management LLP, a boutique international investment firm that invests other peoples’ money, for a fee, into the stocks of ‘green’ companies. … So when Al beats the drum for possible future global warming, he’s also drumming up business.

And profiting from hyping the “global warming” crisis.

In a nutshell, Gore consumes large amounts of carbon-based electricity while he trumpets the global warming crisis that drives up the value of “green” companies like the ones in which he buys carbon offsets invests in their stocks.

And “carbon offsets” are a dodgy way for someone to claim to be carbon-neutral even as they consume large amounts of carbon-based energy. The notion that selling carbon offsets actually helps the environment is taken as a given by those who sell them and by those who buy them, but at this point it is unproven. ~ecototality.com

Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on February 28, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit, under the following categories: climate change, eco-terrorism, enviro-death-cult, global warming

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