Sure, Goldman Sachs and Enron once feverishly collaborated on what a trading scheme and exchange floor for swapping carbon ration coupons would look like — hint, UK traders call it “our new playground” — and that the Bush administration’s fiercest internal advocates of such a scheme happen to be Goldman alumni (SecTres Paulsen and WH CoS Bolten). But maybe it’s time we gave them their due for seriousness of purpose.

“Goldman Sachs has been one of the most aggressive firms on Wall Street about taking action on climate change; the company sends its bankers home at night in hybrid limousines.”

–The New York Times. February 25.

“Written without a hint of irony,” Charles Krauthammer observes, “this front-page dispatch captured perfectly the eco-pretensions of the rich and the stupefying gullibility with which they are received.”

Hat Tip to Brandon Dutcher at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.