''They do the Carbon
Emissions Offset? What is that -- a '60s dance craze? No, it's way
hotter. I mean, cooler. All the movie stars are doing it. In fact, this
year's Oscar goodie-bag that all the nominees get included a year's
worth of carbon offsets. Totally free. So even the stars' offsets are
offset. No wonder that, when they're off the set, they all do the
offset. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio: He's loaded with 'em, and the chicks
think he's totally eco-cool. Tall and tan and young and lovely, the boy
with carbon offsets goes walking and when he passes each one he passes
goes aaaiiieeeeeeeee!
''How do "carbon offsets" work? Well, let's say you're a former vice
president and you want to reduce your "carbon footprint," but the
gorgeous go-go Gore gals are using the hair dryer every night. So you
go to a carbon-credits firm and pay some money and they'll find a way
of getting somebody on the other side of the planet to reduce his
emissions and the net result will be "carbon neutral." It's like in
Henry VIII's day. He'd be planning a big ox roast and piling on the
calories but he'd give a groat to a starving peasant to carry on
starving for another day and the result would be calorie-neutral.''
- Mark Steyn
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Man that Mark Steyn can turn a phrase. Maybe our gal Ann could learn something
ReplyDeleteMM
Did you know that the USA is roughly carbon-neutral? All our forests, and fields of corn, wheat and pot, suck down about as much CO2 as our SUVs, factories and potheads spew out.
ReplyDeletePrevailing winds blow west-to-east. So you measure the CO2 in air blowing onto the West Coast, then when it blows off the East Coast. There's no significant difference.
Therefore, Al Gore needs to GET OFF OUR BACKS!
Forget it Bob. This, like most everything else coming out of leftist cells is about "winning." Winning what? Don't matter, as long as they win. They've got stars on thars
ReplyDeleteROFLOL! That's the only explanation of carbon credits that has made sense to me! And especially the calorie offset.
ReplyDeleteLove it. Thanks for sharing.
mary
This sounds very much like indulgences that the Roman Catholic church used to sell.
ReplyDeleteYet more proof that Global Warming is simply a cult.