12. You should conserve so they don't have to.

Al Gore's Hypocrisy.

By Nat Trayger, Ed.D

Imagine that there is an organization called People Against Litter. The head of the organization is a public figure who has appealed to the nation that littering will have catastrophic results for the planet. It is then discovered that this person litters nearly twenty times as much as the average American. When confronted with this he states that he has purchased litter offsets. The offset in this case is a promise from some group that they will not litter or they will even clean up litter in order to allow the head of People Against Litter to litter all he wants to.

This is analogous to the situation concerning Al Gore and his campaign against man-made global warming. According to the Tennessee Policy Institute, Al Gore’s home in Tennessee uses twenty times the amount of electricity as the typical American home. His spokespeople have responded by saying that Mr. Gore has purchased carbon offsets to make up for his private jet trips and electricity consumption.

A “carbon offset” as defined on the David Suzuki Foundation website, which is devoted to environmental causes, “is an emission reduction credit from another organization’s project that results in less carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than would otherwise occur. Carbon offsets are typically measured in tons of CO2-equivalents (or 'CO2e') and are bought and sold through a number of international brokers, online retailers, and trading platforms.”

This system of carbon offset trading means that if you are wealthy enough to purchase these offsets you will not have to do anything to change your lifestyle in order to reduce your personal contribution to the amount of greenhouse gas. You can pay someone else to reduce theirs. This is in stark contrast to some of the proposals Mr. Gore made when he testified on Capitol Hill about these issues. Mr. Gore believes that carbon emissions should be taxed. The taxes will discourage people who are poorer than Mr. Gore from using fossil fuels thus reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Of course, Mr. Gore and other wealthy individuals will be able to buy their way out of the need to make changes in the way they live.

This reminds one of the policy during the Civil War when one could avoid military service by buying a substitute for $300, a large amount in those days. Dislike of this policy led to the slogan that the war was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight." It seems that Al Gore views concerning Global Warming is that it is "a rich man's offset but a poor man's sacrifice."

Another global warming hypocrite.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/nationworld/sfl-flcristcarbon0322sbmar22,0,547854.story

Buying your way to carbon neutrality?

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flocarbon0916nbsep16,0,2744765.story 

Bloomberg extolls mass transit while he gets a chauffered Chevy Suburban.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01bloomberg.html?ei=5065&en=992d7a10323c6cd1&ex=1186632000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

Bloomberg's traffic congestion plan shows how the wealthy will be favored.  They can afford to congest the city, can you?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/nyregion/09congest.html?hp 

Scharzenegger lives large with private jets paid for by "charity."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold5jul05,0,6973421,full.story?coll=la-home-center

Fraud and carbon trading.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/48e334ce-f355-11db-9845-000b5df10621.html

Rolling Stone and carbon neutrality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11rolling.html?ex=1182139200&en=775550b664895012&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

Things heat up over charges of hypocrisy over global warming.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/05/20/2007-05-20_dicaprio_fumes_over_charge_of_ecohypocri-1.html

Is DiCaprio a hypocrite?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070519184436.x9vgvtk2&show_article=1

Dems ride on private jets to debate.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-campaign-planes,0,4666247,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Laurie David flies in private jets while she preaches conservation.

http://www.instapundit.com/archives2/004427.php

Al Gore, you must conserve so he doesn't have to.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm

All she wants to do is just use one, I have a feeling she'll be the aromatic one. Sheryl Crow on toilet paper.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheryl-crow/laurie-and-sheryl-go-to-s_b_46320.html

She says it was a joke but maybe we know why Karl Rove did not want Sheryl to touch him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/04/22/karl-rove-vs-sheryl-crow_n_46557.html

Will Hollywood enviromarxists take the pledge?

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070423-104948-7992r.htm

This column illustrates the command and control attitude of the elitist.

Madonna accused of hypocrisy.

Gore gets heckled about his lifestyle.

Greens all talk on Global Warming?