How carbon offsets help fight global warming 11 Articles

by Daniel J. Gansle

The world of carbon offsetting is a very complex one that comprises both voluntary and compulsory participation. Individuals, companies, or governments can voluntarily opt to purchase carbon offsets to mitigate their own c...read more

by Foxbaron

They don't, because carbon offsets are a crock. Carbon offsets are a fictitious creation of those who are trying to justify their own actions. It's nothing more than another political agenda to make the rich boys and...read more

by EMSalem

Global warming is an issue we can no longer ignore. Carbon offsetting is the new way to fight global warming and you can do it by not having to change your lifestyle. What you do is to support the efforts of those who are ...read more

by Chaz Z.

Another name for Carbon offsets would be "environmental treason." Or "hypocrisy at work." Let me show you how "Carbon offsets" are responsible for more hypocrisy and more environmental damage then any other law breaking ac...read more

by Colette Georgii

Carbon Offsets and Global Warming Carbon Offsets are an attempt by various organizations, companies, and people to offset the amount of energy and pollutants they use, by buying into charitable causes that work to allev...read more

by Ralph S.

Carbon offsets can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions we send to the atmosphere but it is not the answer to global warming. Carbon offsets only reduce the emissions, they do not completely remove them. And this method is...read more

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by Michael Capraro

Carbon Offsets Some Dollars and Sense While researching "World Environment Day" or WED (www.unep.org/wed/2008), I checked out a related link that enables you to calculate your own carbon footprint. It seemed one of th...read more

by Rex Trulove

Offset what? Carbon isn't, and never has been a major contributor to global warming. If we are talking about carbon as in carbon dioxide, this gas has far less effect on the environment than does water vapor, the greate...read more

by dlmetz

Global warming is not caused by CO2. So if global warming is not caused by the amount of CO2 in the air how can buying carbon offsets help with global warming? That is for one. For two global warming was caused by the Demo...read more

by David Moreland

Carbon offsets are very much in the news these days. Various politicians, celebrities and presidential candidates, of course, have recently salvaged their green reputations by buying carbon offsets to compensate for their ...read more

by Vincent J.D. Grant

The thought of global warming provokes an image of a gradual heating up of our planet. We may think about the devastating impacts that a gradual heating up would have on us and our environment. The melting of the polar ice...read more