More on Al’s Carbon Offsets

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 1:37 pm by Neal

Last week we noted that Al Gore is paying himself, through his own company, for carbon offsets to “compensate” for his hypocritical energy usage. Apparently, we weren’t quite correct about Al’s eco-indulgences. According to Iain Murray, writing in today’s National Review,” the real story “is perhaps even more bizarre” because Gore isn’t paying a damned thing!

From “Gore Story Just Gets Weirder” by Iain Murray:

Al Gore does not pay himself to purchase carbon offsets, that’s official. But the real story is perhaps even more bizarre:

The confusion, Campbell said, arose because GIM pays to offset the energy use of its operations and the personal emissions of its 23 employees, including Gore.

So, the firm will cover the cost to offset the energy use at Gore’s home, or his global jet travel, as it would the offset cost of any other employee, Campbell said.

GIM, which Gore started with former Goldman Sachs executive David Blood in 2004, uses the Chicago Climate Exchange and the British-based Carbon Neutral Company to cover the high energy use of GIM and its employees.

So he, himself, personally is not actually paying for any carbon offsets at all.

Un-frackin’-believable.

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