Report: Carbon Removal Has Little Impact

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/nov/13/111309918.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Only about a third of the climate-damaging carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in North America is offset by carbon removing activities, a government report said Tuesday.

Currently, North America produces more than one-fourth of the carbon dioxide released worldwide by burning fossil fuels and other activities, the U.S. Climate Change Science program said in the report.

The report comes as top climate researchers from around the world meet in Spain to work on a new analysis on climate change, an increasing concern to scientists and policymakers worried about warming temperatures.

According to the new U.S. study, North America released 1,856 million metric tons of carbon into the air in 2003 - 85 percent from the United States, 9 percent from Canada and 6 percent from Mexico.

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issues, and we also need to generate less CO2 in the first place! Duh.

The headline makes it sound like there is no point in trying.

To ACTIVELY work at removing CO2 from the atmosphere?

I love that "what's the point?" argument almost as much as "that won't work (even though I don't have any idea what you just said)" and "It's too hard". Every time I hear any of them, I think I'm having a stroke.

there may be some that are partly legit,
but an outsider has no idea
where his money is going

Some "carbon offset" programs are probably out and out scams.
Some "carbon offset" programs may be of questionable efficacy.
Some "carbon offset" programs are probably legitimate.