General Electric has come up with a brilliant marketing scheme for lemmings out there who think global warming is caused by human activity and are riddled with guilt about it: a credit card!  But not just any credit card, one that helps offset your carbon footprint, you planet killing bastard!

GE is introducing the Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard, the only card where 1 percent of your purchases can either be given to you in cash form or used to purchase carbon credits. 

That’s 1 whole percent!  Never mind the fact that the interest rate is between 12.99 and 18.99 percent and if GE really gave a damn and truly bought into this global warming myth stuff they could easily just use a small percentage of that interest to buy “carbon credits” if they really wanted to.

Oh, and another thing that makes this fishy; GE is in the carbon credits business.  They have invested heavily alternative energy programs and products, therefore could technically pocket that 1 percent card holders would forgo for the good of the world. 

This is akin to Al Gore purchasing carbon credits from a company in which he is an investor.  Oops, wait, he’s already done that. 

The New York Times story has an interesting tidbit of information for anyone interested in knowing what they contribute to global warming on an annual basis:

If someone charges $750 each month, 1 percent would come to $90 for the year – enough to offset air conditioning, driving and pretty much all of the activities that yield the 10 metric tons of greenhouse gases that G.E. says a consumer produces each year on average.

We don’t begrudge GE a profit, hell the more anyone can make off the greatest hoax ever before it’s discovered as such, the better.  There are always people who will believe the worst stories and eventualities told to them, and they need to be catered to as well.  But come on, think about it.  If this is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced, and these people and companies really believe it to be true, would they be using it as a marketing gimmick?  Would they treat it like Christmas or birthdays, or would they treat it like it was serious?

As a side note, we do have a bit of problem with Al Gore making a profit off this since he’s the loudest mouthpiece for this hoax.  Without Gore, this would be laughed off like the junk science it is.  So there is something particularly unseemly about what he’s doing.  Think about it, if the earth were really as doomed as he claims it is (we have only a couple of years before it’s too late to do anything to save ourselves), wouldn’t he be using his considerable fortune to buy carbon credits for everyone he could and screaming from every mountain top that the end is near?  It will, after all, dramatically chance the face of the earth to the point that his grandchildren will likely die as a result.  Why wouldn’t he do all in his power to stop it? 

Instead, he’s flying around the world on private jets, charging for speeches and finding ways to make profits off our coming doom. 

Unless he’s found a way around the old saying, “You can’t take it with you,” there’s something curious afoot. 

Could it be this?

Are they already looking for ways to lengthen the doomsday timeline to maximize profits?

For a debate that has “ended,” there sure seems to be a lot of debatable “science” on their side.  We can see why they wouldn’t want to talk about it. 

Contrary to what the pro-global warming side says, you be the judge.