Making Fun of Goofball Wormening Alarmists

The website for C.R.O.C. is a hilarious send up of the idea of carbon offset credits. Go and check them out. Carbon offsets credits, of course, are how Gore justifies his huge mansion, and flying around in private planes to push the Global Warming agenda. How Edwards justifies his is still a mystery. In any case, a good way to look at carbon offsets is to use the analogy to medieval indulgences. The idea of an indulgence was that you can sin as much as you want if you can afford to buy an indulgence from the church to get you out of hell. A very lucrative business for the clergy, who claimed to have an exclusive lock on God's grace. If you ever wondered what the Protestants were protesting, this was a large issue for them. In a similar vein, as the website points out, carbon offsets allow you to feel good in spite of being a "sinner" because you have paid the "church" so to speak, which has an exclusive lock on such forgiveness. As you can see, though, it's all a crock....