So, will the faith-based science club on the right finally get on board? Not bloody likely.
Global warning has already hit the danger point that international attempts to curb it are designed to avoid, according to the world's top climate watchdog.
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told an international conference attended by 114 governments in Mauritius this month that he personally believes that the world has "already reached the level of dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" and called for immediate and "very deep" cuts in the pollution if humanity is to "survive".
His comments rocked the Bush administration - which immediately tried to slap him down - not least because it put him in his post after Exxon, the major oil company most opposed to international action on global warming, complained that his predecessor was too "aggressive" on the issue.
For some time the right, in this county and abroad, has been quite successful at mucking up the issue of global warming. Throw up a bunch of bullshit, hope something sticks. I'm sure this report won't change many minds, but that won't change the reality of the situation.
George Will on This Week (paraphrasing): "Critics of American power should take note that it's the American military, particularly the Navy, that turns assistance into real aid. Given the scale of the United States' assistance [in the tsunami disaster] critics should take note that American power has its usefulness."
Really? No shit, Will. As if criticism of American power is directed at the Navy per se, no matter what it does, and has nothing to do with actual policies. Better to take criticism of individual policies and conflate it all into some sort of general criticism of American power.
Asshole.