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Originally posted by HippieSmell
I urge all of you to read about sulfur dioxide trading and see how well that worked, then tell me why there is so much opposition to doing the same thing for CO2. You can make fun of Gore all you want for his carbon trading, but it's a great system if only there was a little more support for it.
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Carbon trading seems to be more about economics and making vast amounts of money than saving the planet...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...3/b4027057.htm
http://green.itweek.co.uk/2007/02/emission_tradin.html
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...es_inconv.html
Once you've had a sift through that then you can tell me if you still think it's a great system in it's present format.
Gore would be considered a conman in any other walk of life but because he parades himself as a climate warrior he's held up on a pedestal of greatness.