Talk about having learned at the feet of their master–in this case, Enron.

This does tempt one with remembering that it was BP’s (then-) Sir John Browne with whom Kenny Boy sashayed into the Oval to meet Bill and Al on August 4, 1997.

Their advice? Ignore the unanimous Senate advice just given less than a month earlier, and agree to Kyoto, but it had to include a trading scheme.

We of course know whose advice was deemed more persuasive.