I have long held the opinion that carbon credit markets as proposed by Congress are more effective for speculators to make money rather than an efficient way to reduce emissions. Now, of all people/organizations to join me, an environmental group has spoken out against the prevailing legislation. As I have watched carbon market trading, their arguments certainly seem to be supported by who is trading in credits. Just when the political machine in the US is gearing up to try to pass carbon credit legislation, along comes a tough argument from an environmental group against it. Perhaps it’s time for other environmental groups to take a closer look at this carbon trading nightmare we are about to embark upon.

Some people will take a cause and just go to the extreme with it. So, now that we know (Okay, does this surprise anybody?)  that herds of animals are partially responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, what’s next? Do we just go around to countries with herds of animals and start “culling” them to reduce emissions? I know, once we’ve “culled” all the animal herds, we could “cull” the human population as well since we have plenty of evidence of the damage humans do to the environment. Perhaps they should start with the “academic” quoted in this article.