It was announced today in the New York Times that Senate Mensa candidates Barbara Boxer and John Kerry had conceived a bill regarding Climate Change. The legislative coupling that produced the bill was nine moths in making, and both authors concede that [they]“have no pretensions, and neither does Barbara, that this will be the final product. It is a starting point, a commitment, full-fledged, across party lines to do what we need to do to protect the planet for the next century.”