[JimRed]

Irrelevant. The main thing is that a Secretary of Energy, a passel of Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Deputy Assistant Undersecretaries, and Directors, not to mention a planeload of congressmen, got to spend 4-6 years on an A-list conference circuit, jetting around the world to saving the planet conferences at five-star hotels. This is the basic UN/international NGO/inter-governmental working group model. The success of the underlying project is actually quite a secondary concern, and in any event ought not to occur too quickly, before everyone has sated their wanderlust.

With your kind permission, I will be stealing the bolded section to include in my next editorial page submission debunking the warmists' ramblings in our local Gannett newsrag.

[sphinx]

Feel free. No attribution needed. But of course, if you win a Pulitzer for commentary, I want a slice of the cash.