Creating the right climate for progress was the responsibility of not only the government but "everyone with a gun," he added.
Given that coal use by China (and the sources of that coal) has to be at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when coal flows from rich countries to fast-growing giants like China.
Brian Deese, a senior advisor to President Barack Obama, spoke at an event called "North American Mid-Century Strategies for Low-Emission Developmento" hoping toutout an optimistic White House report projecting markers of climate change progress in the middle of this century.
"But the steps forward at Cancún showed that the UN framework convention on climate change is capable of progress".
That's not to say the EU is a paragon of climate progress.
Let's take a deeper look at just how our trade rules are getting in the way of climate progress.
This will minimize the externalities, both here and abroad, of climate progress, and incentivize new industries and energy processes.
The simplistic view is that Republicans are not in favor of climate progress where Democrats are; I think that's not correct.
Ideological, right-wing opponents of climate progress and clean energy stayed more on message, releasing a poll purporting to show that the public, all the other evidence to the contrary, didn't really favor tougher clean-up of carbon pollution or California climate leadership after all.
Last month, presidents, kings and prime ministers talked about the dangers of climate change, progress made in development goals, the threats of terrorism or their responses to the global immigration crisis.
Stephens didn't assuage those fears when he devoted his first column to punching hippies, absurdly suggesting that our lack of progress on climate policy is a result of greens being too mean to climate deniers.
