Comprehensive Radicality, Tantalising Significance

The world is potentially on the verge of a breakthrough on climate change. Tony says it, so it must be true. Tony says that "the mood in the US is in the process of a quantum shift", presumably a reference to the Bush administration's shift from denial of the existence of climate change to refusal to contemplate any but the most ludicrous solutions. Tony whipped up another cadaver into his extensive repertoire of dead horses by pushing the "opportunity to agree at least the principles of a new binding international agreement to come into effect when Kyoto expires in 2012". Such an agreement would be "more radical than Kyoto", insofar as such radicality might be achievable without exerting undue pressure on polluters to do anything that would inconvenience them; and also "more comprehensive because it includes America, China and India". Perhaps nobody has yet plucked up the courage to inform his reverence of America's dislike for binding international treaties and its preference for large clouds of radioactive dust. Tony also made some urgings to the world's richest countries to do something about "international commerce and Africa", and talked to Bill Gates and Bono. This "Being A World Statesman" thing must certainly be exciting for him.