Al Gore: 1; 7,500 Chinese peasants: 0

[Oakman]

China, it seems, is building lots of dams these days, to generate electric power. But dams also generate carbon credits because they are a clean energy source. Then countries like Germany - which is still belching CO2 and assorted pollutants from coal-fired smokestacks - buys up those carbon credits and announces that it is in compliance with the Kyoto Protocols. Germany can look down on the US. China gets more hard currency, everybody's happy - except the people who used to live in the valley where the dam was built. The dams are displacing Chinese peasants who say that they are not even receiving enough compensation to allow them to buy a homestead anywhere else. You know the system is rife with fraud when Ariana Huffington is the source of an anti-anti-global-warming story. Clickety[^]

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[Christian Graus]

Carbon credits are proving to be what they always were, another way to create global inequity. The trouble with such plans is that they will have loopholes and will encourage behaviour that otherwise makes no sense.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.