[Tommy]

I have one more thought on this topic. I recently heard a radio interveiw with a controversial Danish economist named Bjorn Lomborg. He attended the UN climate conference to espouse his view that climate change is not the most pressing international challenge facing the world. In his view, if you rank ordered all the challenges to human life (e.g., malaria, AIDS, malnutrition, etc.) the effects of global warming would fall way down at the bottom of the list. So, if the world wants to address its most pressing problems, it should spend its money first on those challenges at the top of its list. He suggested world governments spend the relatively small amount of $100 billion per year on R&D in an effort to find a technological break through that would replace the use of fossil fuel. Interestingly enough, that's the exact same amount being proposed by US Secretary of State Clinton.