How to Get Rich By Scamming the Climate

onJan 21, 2008 @ 07:01 PST

A cartoon in The New York Times brilliantly captured the mentality behind the latest green trend. It showed a man kneeling at the confessional praying, “Forgive me, but I have SUV‘d.”

The minister takes the proffered bag of money and replies:

Go thy way, thy sins are offset. You too can be forgiven of your carbon emitting sins and achieve the exalted status of being ‘carbon neutral’ without trading in your SUV or cancelling that overseas vacation.”

Here’s a collection of articles we’ve written on the issue carbon offsets:

Enron-Type Accounting Used to Calculate “Carbon Offsets”

Romm on trees and carbon offsets

The Latest in Offsets: Homelessness

Carbon Trading: “Bad for the South, Bad for the North, Bad for the Climate”

Monbiot: Methane Findings Highlight the Scam of Carbon Trading

By Ross Gelbspan

uk/Nigel Farage Has Accepted £2 Million Since Becoming an MP

BySam Bright

onMay 6, 2026 @ 12:32 PDT

The Green Party has accused Farage of being “focused on personal gain and public division”.

Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

Analysis

Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’

ByMitch Anderson

onMay 6, 2026 @ 07:25 PDT

Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?

us/Event | How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office

ByDeSmog

onMay 5, 2026 @ 11:07 PDT

Join a May 7 discussion on how the Trump administration’s open embrace of climate denial in Washington is enabling more denial at the highest levels of government in the U.S. and beyond.