According to Bud Selig, man-made global warming is a threat and "carbon offsets" and the NRDC are the solution

Is your team "progressive" and if so how much does it cost you? Is your team made to feel inferior or not with-it because it's not a slave to the international media frenzy involving billions of dollars and the sovereignty of our country? (excluding China, of course)?

• The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) now has jurisdiction over certain baseball contracts and other matters, according to this 3/11/08 article from MLB.com. It will advise us on "carbon offset" matters.

(MLB.com): "The NRDC Team Greening Advisor for Major League Baseball will work with each individual club on a host of topics, including:

• Adopting an official environmental policy

• Incorporating environmental language
• into contracts, purchasing policies and requests for proposals that specify preferences for environmentally sound products and services

• Encouraging the use of renewable energy

• Providing information about how to credibly offset the carbon emissions related to team and fan transportation."....

The NRDC features scientists such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurie David, and Robert Redford on its Board of Trustees. The NRDC also started the later debunked "alar" craze about apples in the 1980's. It's good to be cautious about chemicals in foods, but the group's information and tactics were harmful to many.

• Many companies are trying to make money off the man-made global warming scam. Al Gore is an investor in many of them. (Seeing Al Gore on the Academy Awards last year convinced a Cincinnati Reds official to pay carbon tax*). Gore usually does not allow traditional media into lectures he gives on the subject.

• 1. cnet.com, 11/12/07, Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins

• 2. 11/3/08, Berkeley Daily Planet

From a recent Al Gore seminar, Newsbusters.com 4/11/08, lists company names he promoted:

• "Amyris (biofuels), Altra (biofuels), Bloom Energy (solid oxide fuel cells), Mascoma (cellulosic biofuels), GreatPoint Energy (catalytic gasification), Miasole (solar cells), Ausra (utility scale solar panels), GEM (battery operated cars), Smart (electric cars), and AltaRock Energy (geothermal power)."

I'm in favor of clean air, clean water, a minimum of international air travel, and realize that these things have costs attached to them. But not to the degree that has taken over baseball, all with an eye to global bureaucrats and corrupt countries screaming for US dollars. No one knows who will pocket the dollars, but if you don't sign up, you're not "progressive" or with-it.

• *(On April 3, 2007, I posted the Cincinnati Reds signed up with a carbon offsets company. The Reds' official decided to so so after seeing the Academy Awards on television. Referenced Cincinnati Enquirer article may be archived).

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