Nope! I'm not a believer in climate change anymore. I know what pollution is and CO2 is not pollution and I'm tired scaring my kids with CO2 death threats. CO2 phobia was a mistake. Our Iraq War of lies and fear mongering?
Count me out.

Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

Yep! I'm a believer in climate change ever since I read the first ice-core sample reports in the mid-1980s and remembered what the German climatologist who took them said, "I don't want to be the one to tell them they've got to get rid of most of their goodies and their comfortable lifestyle." Any gas unloaded in the atmosphere in amounts big enough to adversely alter the entire climate of the planet to render it difficult-to-impossible for humans and other animal and plant species to survive is POLLUTION, and that definitely includes CO2 and methane.

Obama's time to ramp up New Deal type jobs programs is running out. It takes months to get such programs up and running and he can't delay them past this year and hope to get re-elected. He's as stoned on neo-liberal koolaid as Bush II was stoned on neo-conservatism. Obama's already done, though he's too stupid a corporatist tool to know it. And when he's gone the hard-core, Tea Bagger infested GOP fascists will implode in one election cycle after him. Then we could see Balkanization of the country--riven with regional racial conflicts and white "conservative" versus white/black/brown poor factions, subsets of urban over-populations vs. rural agricultural heartland populations, you name it. It won't be pretty. It will look more like that old Kevin Costner movie The Postman, until 25 years on it will look like a combination of the The Postman and Waterworld.

Olive branches my ass. They've been given the whole goddamn tree and the land it grew on.

For me, Obama has very little choice in the matter, IF he believes that America cannot live without the industries to which it gave birth. Business is threatening to leave the United States altogether if it doesn't get its' way.

I say, "Let them leave! We can re-invent ourselves just fine without them as long as we keep U.S. soil, U.S. soil." In other words, the businesses that leave should be restricted from access of U.S. soil/water/etc. resources regardless of paper ownership. This, of course, flies in the face of WTO agreements (which should have been rejected upon inception). However, these businesses should be restricted from crippling their mother, the country which birthed them and/or the planet upon which we rely. This is how they've got Obama by the balls even before he took office. This is how they've got the U.S. on life support. This is how their voices matter more than the millions of human beings who disagree with their board room decisions.

Climate change is real. The fear mongering and the anger mongering amplified by pundits of all stripes is used to obscure the essential issues. Climate change is a thing we should be concerned about as opposed to how much money the Super Bowl takes in, or how much is being spent on the royal wedding; we already know it is an equivalent of a bank. What is more valuable than a bank is the planet upon which we place our feet. This is being intentionally made obsolete when it is of the utmost importance. Why? Because these folks are addicted, just as much as any street junkie, and therefore they are insane.