Global warming word games | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Finally, my favourite, the "carbon offset" -- used by jet-setting politicians, environmentalists, UN delegates, movie stars, rock bands, professional athletes and other rich celebrities to claim all that flying and voracious energy consumption they're doing is "carbon neutral" because they're paying somebody else not to emit carbon dioxide in the future.

What would be the correct phrase describing carbon offsets, you ask?

That's easy: "Utter bulls--t."

10% of winter wheat crop killed

A harsh winter has killed at least 10 per cent of the winter wheat crop in Ontario.

“That’s probably the worst we’ve seen in 15 years,” Peter Tuinema, manager of programs and policy with the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board, said Friday.