Climate change happens - our Sun is a variable star and its output drives the heat-engine that makes our weather and long-term climate. Where I am sitting (Pacific Northwest) was once under the half-mile thick Laurentide Ice Sheet. This was only about 22,000 years ago. An eyeblink to the cosmos. Our planet has been home to at least five major ice ages in its history.
To think that us humans could upset this natural cycle is pure hubris on our part. Influence it a few percent? Yes. Be the sole cause for a catastrophic perturbation? No.
The people who preach that we are doing this are a cult. A cult which unfortunately is useful to other people who want power and are willing to use the claim of Global Warming to manipulate people to their own ends. At times, this makes for interesting stories.
Here is one from SourceMaterial. First, from their About page:
SourceMaterial was founded in 2017 to carry out investigations around climate change, corruption and democracy. We look for stories where these topics intersect, and for gaps where public-interest stories have been underreported.
Our aim is always best-practice reporting: we work to a strict editorial code and our partners in the mainstream media rely on us for accuracy, fairness and a commitment to ethical journalism.
And the article that caught my eye:
The Carbon Con
The world’s biggest companies, from Netflix to Ben & Jerry’s, are pouring billions into an offsetting industry whose climate claims appear increasingly at odds with reality
In 2019, Elias Ayrey, an idealistic scientist freshly armed with a doctorate in forest conservation, flew from his home in Maine to California and drove deep into the woods. In a timber-framed house dwarfed by giant redwoods, he and his host sat late into the night thrashing out the blueprint for a business with real impact on climate change.
The owner of the house was Diego Saez-Gil, an Argentinian tech entrepreneur who would become chief executive of Pachama, a company that offers to help industry reduce harmful impact by offsetting fossil fuel emissions with carbon credits.
Ayrey was filled with excitement when Saez-Gil invited him to sign on as Pachama’s chief scientist. “It was beautiful,” he said.
But a year later alarm bells were beginning to sound, even as Pachama’s business boomed. Ayrey was becoming uneasy that the soaraway success was built on a fundamental conflict of interest—one that meant Pachama, far from providing a solution to climate change, was fuelling an industry fast becoming part of the problem.
Fast forward and:
A nine-month investigation by SourceMaterial, The Guardian and Die Zeit suggests that the flaws identified by Ayrey at Pachama—which he continues to believe is one of the more conscientious offsetters—are rife in an industry whose claims to mitigate climate change are significantly at odds with reality.
Our analysis of nearly 100 million carbon credits found that only a fraction of them resulted in real emissions reductions. It raises questions for the organisations that many of the world’s biggest companies, and the consumers who buy their products, rely on to set the standard for effective carbon offsetting—in particular the biggest of them, Verra.
“The implications of this analysis are huge,” said Barbara Haya, head of the Carbon Trading Project at the University of California, Berkeley. “Companies are making false claims and then they’re convincing customers that they can fly guilt-free or buy carbon-neutral products when they aren’t in any way carbon-neutral.”
And some numbers:
Our analysis suggests that only 5.5 million of those credits, or 6 per cent of the total, were real emission reductions. Of the 29 projects, only eight reduced any emissions at all.
And this: Verra is a Swiss company now based in Washington, D.C. with 80+ employees. They independently "verify" or bless the offsets.
SourceMaterial then used Verra’s database to compare this with the number of credits each project actually received in the same timeframe. The disparity is stark: 94 per cent of those credits are likely to be worthless, the calculations showed.
Companies who bought the credits include Disney, United Airlines, Air France, Samsung, Liverpool Football Club, Ben & Jerry’s, Netflix and Chevron.
What these corporations are doing is selling Indulgences. Disney, United Airlines, Air France, et. al. are paying serious money to these corporations to gain a veneer of green. There is no real science happening here. There is no real effort to practice what they preach. It's all about the Benjamins. The money.
The name of this business caught my eye: Pachama. As they were founded by an Argentinian, I can only assume that this is a reference to Pachamama. I have a big problem with that. There is a lot of evil walking this Earth these days. Satanic churches, various signs and sigils in public view. The lives of our elites are proving to be rife with corruption and dissipation.
Pachamama is being billed today as a benevolent "Earth Mother" but this is a mother with sharp teeth. If you look into the history, child sacrifice (The Capacocha Ritual) was an intrinsic part of her cult.
From the entry:
In pre-Hispanic culture, Pachamama is often a cruel goddess eager to collect her sacrifices
Sacrifices which were massive in scope:
Hearts Ripped from 140 Children and 200 Llamas in Largest Child Sacrifice in Ancient World
The largest child sacrifice on record took place after a torrential rainfall, when about 140 children and 200 young llamas likely had their hearts ripped out by the ancient Chimú culture in A.D. 1450, in what is now Peru.
An entity that has fed on that much innocent blood will be very very thirsty for more
