Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Doc Every Climate Denier Should Be Forced to Watch
[Greedy Lying Bastards] was funded by two independent, private financiers, who wish to stay anonymous. It is their first project in the film industry but their motivation is concern about the issue.
A cool new way climate change is killing bivalves | Grist
It’s unleashing an awkward kind of anti-puberty on them. They’re growing smaller and weaker, and now we find out that they’re basically losing their hair.
Disney, Latam Airlines buy 444,000 Peruvian forest carbon credits - AlertNet
SAO PAULO, March 18 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The Walt Disney Company and Latin America’s largest air carrier, Latam Airlines, bought 444,000 carbon offsets from Peru-based projects for between $7 and $8 per ton in separate deals last week, giving a boost to South America’s burgeoning voluntary carbon market.
Hacker jailed for bid to steal carbon credits from UN - Telegraph
A cyber-criminal nicknamed the 'Black Dragon', who masterminded an audacious attempt to hack into the United Nations computer systems to steal £6.5m worth of carbon credits, was jailed for three-and-a-half years yesterday.

2 comments:

Soylent Green said...

Forced to watch Greedy Lying Bastards? Look at t˙e box office. That's the only way it will get an audience. :-)

Anonymous said...

Re: Disney, Latam Airlines buy 444,000 Peruvian forest carbon credits - AlertNet --- "“The proceeds will be used to partly fund our policies to protect the area,” he said."

In my opinion, these carbon credits are nothing more but a scheme to redistribute wealth from rich countries to poorer countries. The UN has wanted a mechanism for this for decades and I think they've found one in AGW.