Where is the Martin Luther of the Treehuggers?

21. Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.

THE 95 THESES by Martin Luther

Travel companies such as British Airways and travel sites Travelocity and Expedia are giving ticket purchasers the chance to at least assuage guilt, and possibly help the planet, by selling so-called offsets to finance green activism. Cost: About $5 and up.

USA Today.com


Carbon offsets are the new indulgence. Feel that liberal pang of guilt with your SUV, don't worry, Pope Al Gore the Benevolent will grant you a ticket to enviromental nirvana with the purchase of a carbon off set for the low low price you are willing to pay. Your guilt is extreme, give us money. You think you can save an evil non-believer, give more. We will pray together to deliver the heretic unbelievers, especially the so-called men of science from who wickedly attack the global warming dogma.
Please disregard the following story, it is a concoction of the evil green house gas infidels,
more from the USA Today piece:

The travel companies pass along the money to a new breed of enterprises — some for-profit, some not — that invest in wind farms, solar energy, energy-efficiency technology or other green projects. They go by names such as Native Energy, Carbon Fund or TerraPass.

thus

Electrical engineer Ron Goltsch, of West Caldwell, N.J., says he looked into TerraPass because he'd been getting teased about how his frequent, worldwide travels contribute to global warming. He scrapped the idea when he learned from its website that it's in business to make money.

or this gem from BillHobbs.com with a hat tip to NewsBusters.com. Click on the site from about the faith-based enviro-scam

But how Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:

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...
Gore is chairman of the firm and, 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.

A scam is a scam is a scam.