Much that resonates with me here.

The change that we are (hopefully) seeing is a growing consensus that 'something' must be done.

The most fruitful 'bipartisan' discussion, for me, in the US was the Kerry / Gingrich "debate" earlier this year.  The 'debate' was absolutely not about whether Global Warming is real, whether it matters, or even whether urgent action is required. The debate was over how best to tackle the challenged. (Gingrich in an idealized 'leave it all to business ... give incentives and they will come', along with idealized vision of new technology coming to the rescue. Kerry was more holistic.)

And, perhaps, the value of the pledge was as a starting point -- along with building of an ever larger e-mail list.

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