Comments on: 2007: Still the Second Hottest Year on Record http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/16/2007-still-the-second-hottest-year-on-record/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Eric Carlson http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/16/2007-still-the-second-hottest-year-on-record/#comment-5120 Eric Carlson Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:31:08 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/16/2007-still-the-second-hottest-year-on-record/#comment-5120 Joe, I hate to cross-post like this but it is truly amazing to me that as the temperature is clearly warming, and fast, and climate change is getting worse, the one solution -carbon offsets- that anyone single person can engage in today and actually gets at the 85% of people's emissions outside their four walls is not embraced by every single environmentalist. Imagine if just 3 million Americans each bought 25 MWHs of RECs a year. It would 'force' a tripling of the industry in just a few years, driving down the price and changing the market to clean energy. Instead, while Rome is burning (or at least heating up fast), the very environmentalists who could change everything, literally everything overnight, without a single government regulation and without thing one that Big Oil could do about it, are stting on the sidelines. I don't get it. Eric Joe,
I hate to cross-post like this but it is truly amazing to me that as the temperature is clearly warming, and fast, and climate change is getting worse, the one solution -carbon offsets- that anyone single person can engage in today and actually gets at the 85% of people’s emissions outside their four walls is not embraced by every single environmentalist.

Imagine if just 3 million Americans each bought 25 MWHs of RECs a year. It would ‘force’ a tripling of the industry in just a few years, driving down the price and changing the market to clean energy.

Instead, while Rome is burning (or at least heating up fast), the very environmentalists who could change everything, literally everything overnight, without a single government regulation and without thing one that Big Oil could do about it, are stting on the sidelines.

I don’t get it.

Eric

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