MCFly 030- Simon C02well swoop

Climate Camp (www.climatecamp.org.uk) will happen somewhere in London from August 26 to September 2 They've just announced they are holding an election to decide where their next action- in October - will take place. Choices are either Drax, the Yorkshire coal plant and the UK's single biggest emitter of carbon and site of the first camp in 2006, or the second largest coal plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, near Nottingham, run by E.ON, site of a recent debacle where over 100 people were arrested before getting near the site. Calls are charged at £1 a minute from landlines. Calls from mobiles will cost considerably more. No, but seriously, you vote by going to www.thegreatclimateswoop.org

Fart Gags and/or Climate Justice Analysis

On a day when news reaches us of a shambolic and literally unendurable Climate Camp meeting in Oxford, and on a day when the Financial Times reports that the price of carbon in the EUETS is at a record low, with predictable negative consequences for investment in low-carbon technology, it's hard to find Reasons to be Cheerful.

Sure, there's the inevitable fart gags of Marc Roberts. But for once he is trumped (ho ho) in the RtbC stakes.

Danny Chivers [disclaimer- I know him a little] has written a very clear and actually amusing (no, really) summary of what is likely to be on the table at Copenhagen. More up to the minute than my look last June or so...

Chivers' piece is in the New Internationalist.