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Old 10-01-2011, 02:40 PM
 
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Well most of us with common sense could have told all these loons that a long time ago. Too bad they don't listen and the madness will most likely continue.

"What has leaked just confirms our view that in its present form the CDM is basically a farce," says Eva Filzmoser, programme director of CDM Watch, a Brussels-based watchdog organization. The revelations imply that millions of tonnes of claimed reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are mere phantoms, she says, and potentially cast doubt over the principle of carbon trading. "In the face of these comments it is no wonder that the United States has backed away from emission trading," Filzmoser says.

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Old 10-01-2011, 03:19 PM
 
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Well most of us with common sense could have told all these loons that a long time ago. Too bad they don't listen and the madness will most likely continue.

"What has leaked just confirms our view that in its present form the CDM is basically a farce," says Eva Filzmoser, programme director of CDM Watch, a Brussels-based watchdog organization. The revelations imply that millions of tonnes of claimed reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are mere phantoms, she says, and potentially cast doubt over the principle of carbon trading. "In the face of these comments it is no wonder that the United States has backed away from emission trading," Filzmoser says.

Clean-energy credits tarnished : Nature News
Do you suppose that old Bubba Clinton saw all this and that is the reason he refused to go along with Algore and sign it? Since Clinton is the smartest man around I bet he did.
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