What could go wrong?: Shell calls for derivatives on carbon trading

Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil producer, is calling for the removal of any restrictions on carbon credit trading and asking for derivative contracts to be allowed under cap-and-trade programs.

The real dilemma of Copenhagen | Environment | The Guardian

Pushpanath Krishnamurthy, or Push as he is more usually known, set out on foot from Oxford yesterday morning, hoping to cover 10-15 miles a day. The 57-year-old Oxfam campaigner is equipped with a pair of MBT shoes, breathable waterproofs, a pair of long johns, a copy of An End of Suffering by the writer Pankaj Mishra, and an unquenchable rage that he hopes will fuel him all the way to Denmark.
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Most journalists (including me) are flying, although there were short-lived rumours of a BBC contingent going by chip-fat-powered car.

Jim Hoggan | Climate Denial Industry Costs Us $500 Billion a Year

World leaders meeting in Copenhagen next month should consider adding to the agenda a plan to charge these oil and coal industry front groups for every penny of that $500 billion annual delay cost, including back payments for the past 20 years of delay created by the climate denial machine.

An ID Proponent Denies Global Warming | Chris Mooney | Discover Magazine

Wow. The Medved Show today went very differently than I expected. I was all prepared to talk about evolution and intelligent design; instead, Stephen Meyer of the anti-evolutionist Discovery Institute spent far more time attacking climate science than evolutionary science.

U.S. Democrats aim to pass climate bill by early 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a climate-change bill in "early spring" of 2010, Senator John Kerry told reporters on Monday, further complicating prospects for an international summit on global warming next month.