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Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon.

Cuba's dictatorship has developed a sudden interest in converting the poverty the Cuban people into hard currency carbon credit payments.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The EU, UK and Australia are funding experiments in “flexible” carbon rationing, in which people receive a set weekly carbon allowance, with a mobile app to deduct from their allowance...

Just when you think banks are only in it for the money, along comes Goldman Sachs to advise us on the planetary atmosphere:

There’s another round of push-poll fake surveys telling us how much the public want action on climate change. Part of the aim is to scare politicians and trick them into thinking that voters won’t vote for skeptics...

Guest post by Roger Caiazza The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is ten years old and has been touted as a successful example of a “cap and invest” pollution control program and now it is being proposed as the...

Graham Lloyd points out we are back where started — a national plan involving international carbon credits: RepuTex analyst Hugh Grossman says the NEG, in effect, ­will establish a de facto price on greenhouse gas...

Interesting Analysis at The Conservative Treehouse.  I’m only posting only a small portion. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered some rather strongly worded remarks in advance of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg...

Carbon markets = corruption Fake markets are easy to scam, because no one really wants or cares about “the product”. Fake markets are dangerous tools. Judging by the way people act, the point of carbon markets...

Big news: A new endogenous forcing found for climate change — sharks. For millions of years, you thought predator-prey relationships were just about big fish having dinner, but not so, they are climate forcings. Sharks...

It’s only been a week, and already the door is open to the emissions trading monster.  The Nationals may have got Turnbull to agree in writing last Tuesday that he would not change the Abbott policies, but writing...

More news of how the faked fixed unfree market in carbon credits feeds the people who are inclined to cheat, and may have actually increased emissions by 600 million tonnes as well (not that that matters)...

Another well known scam that does not seem to bother 'them upstairs'. Astonishing.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A report by the Stockholm environment institute claims that a UN carbon credit scheme “significantly undermined” efforts to tackle global warming...

Maurizio Morabito originally observed that the Pope’s climate encyclical was a “damp squib”. For the most part it is harmless, but it does confront carbon credits and a “ploy”, albeit Pope Francis...