Muck and Mystery
   Loitering With Intent
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June 12, 2009
Big Dung

Draws flies.

Interpol has warned the carbon market will be irresistible to criminal gangs because of the vast amounts of cash to be made. Possible rorts* include under-reporting of carbon emissions by firms and bogus carbon offset schemes.

“If someone is rorting it by even 1 per cent a year, we’re talking about many, many millions of dollars,” Mr Torr said.

Politicians, thieves, criminals . . . whatever. That's what all of the various climate schemes are about. That's all they are about.

* rort: a term used in Australia and New Zealand[1]. It is commonly related to politics, or, more generally, a financial impropriety, particularly relating to a government programme. The term was first recorded in 1919 and is a derivative of the older "rorty" a 19th century London slang word—meaning “fine; splendid; jolly; or boisterous” [2]. The term is also used as a verb to mean the action of defrauding, (e.g.: he rorted the system.).

Chicago style.


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