[Ya gotta admit, this would be the most brillant campaign strategy in the history of politics, and therefore deserving of the executive crown.]

...Well, if we aren't going to get the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert ticket, this one works for me.

One man, one vote.

Greta

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Maybe Grist should hire Shadia.  Do you think she would like that DC job?

Bill McKibben calls a commitment such as the one Edwards has made "our last meaningful chance."  Reviewing the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in the 3/15 New York Review of Books, he writes (p. 45):
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... any useful legislation will have to feature both a very rapid start to reductions and a long and uncompromising mandate to continue them.  [VT Independent Senator Bernie] Sanders's bill, also endorsed by California's Barbara Boxer, who heads the relevant committee, comes closest to that standard.  It calls for an eventual 80 percent cut in emissions by 2050.  McCain's bill, cosponsored by one of his challengers for the presidency, Barack Obama, is somewhat weaker in its eventual targets.  But the bargaining has barely begun, and in any event quick initial implementation of any cuts will be almost as important as the final numbers.

... What's happening now has much to do with positioning for the next presidential election, and the legislation that will eventually be passed and signed in 2009.  What the IPCC report makes clear by implication is that that legislation will be our last meaningful chance: anything less than an all-out assault on carbon in our economy will be rendered meaningless by the increasing momentum of global warming.
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