...these wankers debate who should get the deck chair rental fees.

Because thats what carbon emissions trading amounts to - a clever way to make it look like a lot of action is going on but is really only so much smoke and mirrors. (More smoke heating up the atmosphere and more mirrors trained on the little ice thats left!) The report: 

A climate-change bill that has widespread support as it heads to the Senate floor will create an estimated $150 billion of new assets in the first year it takes effect. Between now and 2050, regulating greenhouse gases could easily generate $3 trillion worth in value in the United States.

Should that value go to utility companies, electricity customers who will face rising rates, government investments in new technology or tax cuts? Or should it be returned to all Americans? That question is being debated vigorously by energy companies, politicians and environmental groups.

Why is this debate so similar to debating the arrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic? Because carbon trading is a flawed and distracting action against global warming.

Preeminent climate scientist James Hansen has declared that the only hope we have of preserving a climate "upon which civilization developed" is to initiate the complete cessation of fossil fuel use and a massive reforestation program (a BILLION trees) among other sweeping changes to the very structure of global economic society.