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Someone get Greenpeace on the line. Boffins clock carbon 'pollution' cloud 30,000 light-years wide choking galaxies

Jellied Eel Silver badge

#PantoCarbon

Carbon is not a pollutant nor is it the cause of climate change.

As it's that time of year*.. Oh yes it is! But there had always been a joke that politicians would find a way to tax the air we breathe. Then came Enron. Then came carbon trading. As carbon's a by-product of pretty much all human (and inhuman) activity, it's the perfect thing to tax or turn into financial instruments and profits.

If carbon itself were the problem, the price of diamonds might plummet.

Ah, well..

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/de-beers-cuts-diamond-prices-by-about-5-as-crisis-deepens

But much like carbon trading, diamonds have oversupply problems and a rigged market. Safer to say something like a carbon crisis leading to invisible passengers on an overcrowded German train..

*this year Madrid, next year, Glasgow! The fun never stops!

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