Surely you see the Co2 global governance framework is collapsing. Seventeen years of COP inadequacy topped off by the Copenhagen snafu has got a lot of people fed up. It must be a slap in the face to many. It should be a wake up call, too.
I wonder if you and Wm. Connolly have any interest in all this other than as an academic exercise.
Joe Romm is a paid climate catastrophe shill who does more to delay the replacement of fossil fuel than anyone else on the internet. His combination of cynical exaggeration of the science, unbelievable hyper partisanship and vituperative attack on any who disagree in even the smallest way with his orthodoxy has even contributed to the doubts more and more people have about climatology.
Joe is a guy with two or three good ideas and seven thousand bad ones. At one time, climateprogress had a good group of commenters including John Mashey and Earl Killian. Now the comments are dominated by the likes of dhogaza and other anonymous reality challenged cheerleaders.
