In all this talk about legacy, there have been disconcerting suggestions, mostly traceable to No. 10 Downing Street, that the President is going to annouce some sort of re-engagement with the UN Climate Change process, if not Kyoto, in the State of the Union address. Tony Snow has, thankfully, slapped down the British propaganda that Tony Blair has persuaded the President of the need for emissions caps, but there’s still plenty to worry about that the President might build on the ludicrous ‘America is addicted to oil’ 12-steps admission of last year. If the President’s team really think that his legacy will be secured by a reintroduction of Carter’s energy policy, they really ought to think again, as well as think about how the conservative base would react to any suggestion of going soft on Kyoto. Nor should we be following Europe’s lead on this one; let’s get it straight – Europe’s emissions have been rising faster than ours in recent years, despite – or conceivably even because of – all the myriad energy caps, taxes and so on. As another British Prime Minister once said, “Now is not the time to go wobbly, George.”