GREAT_AMERICAN asked:


Have you seen the story in the Financial Times that the carbon offset program is nothing but a fraud? Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on ‘carbon credit’ projects that yield few if any environmental benefits. A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organizations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place. It’s sort of like they’re out there collecting money for a new church that’s never going to get built, because global warming is a religion. I called yesterday for the separation of earth and state, and we need to have it. (interruption) Well, we did. It is a religion.

Now, I was thinking, what is something comparable to this? You’ve got all these true believers — and they’re doing it because, like everybody in every other religion, they’re looking for immortality. They’re looking for long life, and, of course, in the global warming religion, it is the Earth that provides that and of course if we’re destroying the Earth, then we’re all going to die. (Crying.) So carbon offsets come along, gigantic fraud. I was thinking, in other religions if this kind of fraud took place, A, what would it be, and B, what would people say about it? I remembered something when I lived in Kansas City, and that would have been from 1975 to ‘83. I don’t remember the specific year, but they had a religious TV station there, and it was right after I got cable. Cable was new then. It was exciting. So this had to be after ‘80. I’m channel surfing around, I’m watching all this, and I didn’t have a rooftop antenna, so I didn’t watch things like Channel 50.

There was this guy on there, I don’t remember his name, and he was talking about Revelation and he was going on and on about the Last Days, and he was asking his audience if they had contributed to his program — and he set a globe on fire! This guy got a globe of the Earth and he poured something on it to make it burn. He lit it, and the globe starts burning as he’s reading from relevant passages from Revelations. I can just see seasoned citizens and the elderly watching this and going, Oh, no! and just writing checks so fast, sending it in to this guy so that they would be saved because the End Times were coming. Well, this is exactly what this is. The carbon offsets are nothing more than that kind of trick or fraud to play on the emotions. It’s amazing the story came out. It’s only in the Financial Times. Drudge has it up. It’s linked there. But I don’t know if we’ll see this anywhere in the Drive-By Media. I have my doubts.

JERI