First came the mafia moving in to take over wind farms because of the guaranteed money — regardless of arbitrary merits like, say, whether the projects actually do much of anything. Now we read that Kyoto’s land-lockup schemes have also been infiltrated.

I immediately wondered, what’s next? We know that, like RICO predicates, such things always travel in packs of three. Then I remembered: we’ve already got prosecutions for carbon trading fraud (not to mention dramatic photos of emissions masquerading as the far less dramatic, invisible greenhouse gases in the related media coverage)! Heck, let’s rush right into this boondoggle. If the mob’s all over it, how bad can it be?