Associated Press: Australia will forge ahead with a plan to tax carbon pollution from 2010 despite the current economic downturn, Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Thursday as he released a reassuring assessment of the scheme. In December, the government will release the final details of the plan, aimed at slashing Australia’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming by 60% by the year 2050. The report by the Treasury Department released on Thursday said that …