Mark Reynolds and the rest of them no the wheels we coming off the Global Warming bus. They have about five more years to cut a deal. After that, they will get nothing. Time to settle cheap.
Using my ability to predict the future, I will outline the eventual deal:
1. Incentives to adopt reduced carbon technology that will accomplish nothing that has not already been accomplished by cheap natural gas and fracking.
2. Continued subsidies to be paid for by a 5% tax on electricity and gasoline.
3. Perpetual sinecures for Global Warming scientists and activists that will be a policy rubber room, completely divorced from any real power.
The day the deal is signed, new evidence will be discovered that will demonstrate the miraculous effect of the new policy and how the World has been saved.
Suddenly they're in a bargaining mood, only they insist on a bad government one-size-fits-all deal. Here's a bargain: give cities unlimited power to pass carbon taxes and regulate carbon emissions within city limits in exchange for leaving the rest of us alone. 90% of Democrats live in cities. To seal the deal we should let Democrats ban all defensive weapon ownership within their urban concentration camps. It will make the surrender negotiations go more smoothly.