Carbon Careers

Following a web link from one of our suppliers at work, they were very excited about the introduction of "green technology", which I suppose is different to "technology" somehow, and they had the logo of this company helping them achieve their carbon goals.

From their about us page:

Carbon Planet is a global carbon management company whose mission is to enable every individual and business on the planet to manage their contribution to the defining issue of our age, global warming.

Note: it's the defining issue of our age.

The scientific case for human impact as a primary cause of global warming has been convincingly made in study after study, and good science is the first step on the road to unlocking the inherent business benefits.

Study after study after study, layer upon layer upon layer. "Convincingly made"...that's sounds like their pretty sure of their convictions.

"Good science", you know, as opposed to "bad science" or "medium science" or "green technology".

Science, you idjits, is science. It is neither good, nor bad. There can be no qualitative adjective describing "science". If it is "bad science" or an experiment that does not follow scientific principles, then it is no longer "science", it is what would be commonly termed "a fraud" . "Good science" is kind of like "good electricity" or "good water". The fact they feel the need to emphasise this, gives me the impression they're not really 100% committed to this "good science", but are clearly very happy to be making money off it.

They also have two pdfs on their "flight emissions calculator" page. I could only stomach one, and then only got to page 4. Two glaringly obvious 'errors':

the importance of aviation for the economy and employment is far less than its importance for climate change

Oh really?!? So I guess you'd be looking at the total amount of goods travelling in and out of a country via air, comparing that to sea carriage, with respect to the GDP? No...no they didn't do that. Something about fuel imports and stuff...

aviation is overwhelmingly an activity of the richest elements of society, measures to combat the environmental impact of aviation would not adversely impact the poor

Wow, I'd guess you'd better tell that to these people, and these ones, and these ones, etc etc etc. Those damn rich people! Always going and getting drowned by tsunamis, starving themselves and getting caught up in natural disasters. They should bloody well start taking responsibility for themselves and you know, like, stop asking countries to fly them aid. I mean how selfish are they?? Worried about their own insignificant lives when we have a PLANET TO SAVE! Don't they know it's THE defining issue of our age?