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

Analysis

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster

ByMitch Anderson

onMar 5, 2026 @ 12:36 PST

First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.

Series: Mark Carney’s Climate Betrayal

Series: Carney's Climate Betrayal

Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events

ByAdam Barnett

onMar 5, 2026 @ 05:31 PST

The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.

Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

Opinion

Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz

ByRei Takver

onMar 4, 2026 @ 03:00 PST

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of Democrats, billionaires, activists and reporters going ‘silent’ on the issue.