Environmentalists Feel Sting of Cap and Trade

Tribune reporter Jim Tankersley has a quietly cutting look at the way environmentalists in Copenhagen are experiencing the bitter taste of cap and trade as they try to make their way into a limited-capacity venue for the United Nations meeting on global warming.

The meeting’s organizers have set a number of passes and then distributed them, with a decreasing amount of passes available each day … just like carbon emissions would be capped and portioned out under cap and trade. Tankersley writes:

Schwarzenegger lowers expectations for Copenhagen : TreeHugger

In an attempt to raise spirits, the Governator lowered expectations: failing in Copenhagen won't discredit all the amazing progress that's happening at state and local levels. It was a shockingly defeatist speech tricked out with sunny language about private-sector innovation.

Pelosi to Copenhagen on tap for Thursday - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to head for Copenhagen on Thursday with a big CODEL of 16 or more members -- but there's a slight chance the plan could be scuttled if votes drag on late into Wednesday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Molly Moore's response to 'The Arena: Copenhagen Climate Conference EditionText reduced to mush' - The Arena | POLITICO.COM

Late this afternoon, according to a source inside the negotiations, conference leaders ordered that the texts be redrafted "into layman's terms" for the arriving heads of state, including Obama. Seems some folks think the world's leaders won't be able to understand much of what negotiators have been toiling over the past 10 days.