Bring on the climate trials: In a global stunt, a U.S. environmental activist is poised to lodge a $1 billion damages class action lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against all world leaders for failing to prevent global warming.

More ecology. At a recent Senate hearing, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) couldn't get a single energy expert to say that additional drilling is America's most important issue. And in England, in an astounding act of quasi-jury-nullication, six Greenpeace activists were cleared in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station under the "lawful excuse" clause of the Criminal Damage Act 1971, which "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire," or, in this case, preventing catastrophic climate change.

From that same MetaFilter thread, lodurr points to some interesting speculation I'd never seen before about the possibility of "climate trials" and "the tobaccofication of carbon."