The Financial Times has looked into the carbon credit scheme, and are shocked, shocked to discover that the carbon credits are mostly bogus. That may be true, but selling carbon credits is an opportunity for a lot of shysters to get rich quick without contributing anything useful to society. Al Gore has made $200 million since he left office, and this carbon credit gig can easily make him a billionaire. If they could just have gotten George Bush on board back in 2001, the Enron collapse might have been avoided. And they could claim credit for the Earth temperature not going up since 1998.