There has been an emergency rescheduling by the UNFCCC of COP 16. I don’t have any proof that this came after realizing the political catastrophe for U.S. Democrats they risked under their original plan. I am certain, however, that it caused heartburn as more of us pointed the peril out. (I did in numerous venues including on The O’Reilly Factor, whose millions of viewers as you know include an awful lot of our friends on the Left, if only to drive themselves even more batty).

As noted here previously, scheduling COP 16 in Mexico inherently raises political issues. But it was originally slated to kick off just six days after our elections — a December 15, 2009 Greenwire story affirms my recollection of the dates being November 8-19 – ensuring a lively political issue in the U.S. as part of what promises to be a lively election season. (If you subscribe to Greenwire and want to see for yourself, you might want to hurry. I’m just saying.)

So today, we read that Mexico City has been pushed aside in favor of Cancun — an able host for the WTO talks I attended earlier in this decade and, per news reports today, a place less likely to feature an unfortunate rash of of kidnappings during the talks. Oh, and the date, while not announced as having been changed, is nonetheless listed as starting three weeks from the originally scheduled kickoff. The November 8 talks are actually now the November 29 or 30 talks, depending on to whom you turn for your news in this period of hasty rescheduling.

That may, or may not, be enough to distract American voters — who appear to be regaining their sober focus on serious issues, and who appear to find the superficial sloganeering of the 2008 election no longer satisfying. Regardless, it’s still On to Mexico! (if a little later in the year than originally planned). Don’t let the voters forget Kyoto II, and to ask of every candidate for the Senate, “Will you, or won’t you?”

Notwithstanding UNFCCC chief Yvo de Boer’s post-Massachusetts panic-stricken bluster about the U.S. being bound by Obama’s promises in Copenhagen, and no matter what the 2010 elections produce, it still takes two-thirds of the Senate (voting) to ratify whatever is agreed in sunny Cancun. Despite what some Obamaphiles are arguing. Let’s straighten this out beforehand.