The climate camp's in town – and it's all so taxing. . . - Telegraph

Yet what really confused me about the climate change protesters who are camping out in south-east London was this: what do they want? Having scoured every report of their activities, I can find no clue as to what their actual demands are.
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If I never drove my car anywhere, it would still cost me more than £500 a year in taxes enthusiastically levied by central and local government under the banner of action against climate change. And yet the people in flowery skirts and combat trousers on Blackheath say that their agenda is being ignored.

I find it not only baffling, but staggeringly ungrateful. In my book, if you persuade the governments of every developed nation on earth to swallow your agenda whole and have millions of people taxed until the pips squeak, the least you can do is to jolly well stop whingeing – and putting up unsightly tents.

Oglethorpe Power replanting trees for carbon [scam] credits - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

Tucker, Ga.-based Oglethorpe Power Corp. will replant up to 500 acres of forestland in an agreement that will give the electric cooperative credits for the carbon dioxide those new trees will capture.
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Under the plan, Oglethorpe will gain title to the carbon dioxide the replanted trees remove from the air for the first 25 years, then will share those rights with the state for an additional 50 years. Carbon dioxide is among the “greenhouse gases” linked to global warming.

Interest in tying farming to carbon dioxide credits waning

Credits are currently selling for about 40 cents a metric ton

Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth – Can Obama steer America between a rock and hard place to Copenhagen? - True/Slant

The ravenous Scylla is the set of high expectations that this tender, ailing world holds for Barack Obama–particularly at that conference. Here he comes to save the day! Surely, if anyone can rally the planet to save itself it’s the community organizer who rose from the blood-spattered ruins of the South Side of Chicago to depose the most virulent strain of American conservatism yet.