Yes, Chris, it would have been preferable to have the Cancun edition of the UN’s movable feast take place immediately after the 2010 elections.

Readers need only recall the (non-Climategate) headlines to which we were treated in the two weeks before Kyopenhagen. My favorite has to be “Copenhagen summit is last chance to save the planet, Lord Stern” — an alarm we will doubtless see recycled with the new COP 16 venue pasted in. The headlines may change, but the hundreds of billions in climate slush funds will certainly remain.

So we will now have to work a little harder to focus American voters’ attention on the wasted taxpayer billions, the self-imposed energy poverty, and the lasting economic damage that Obama and the UN’s “green” agenda promises to deliver. And so we will.

But it sure would have been handy to have the greens doing it themselves. Which just goes to show the old saw is true . . .