This'll be good for Republicans

Real Clear Politics:

A political issue has reached critical mass when its natural adversaries throw in the towel.

That is what is happening in the United States on global warming, with President Bush and much of corporate America signaling they are through disputing whether temperatures are rising enough to portend future woes. ...

In fact, the developing consensus that it is time to deal with the global warming problem rather than argue about its existence is likely to make it less, not more, of a salient domestic political issue.

It is worth remembering that when the Iron Curtain fell and the Cold Warriors claimed victory in the early 1990s, Americans elected a president, Bill Clinton, who was not one of them, and was short on national security credentials to boot.

See? Even though conservatives and the industry were on the wrong side of this for years and they still don't have any good ideas of how to deal with this problem (see "giant space umbrellas"), this can only be good for Republicans! Wrap it up, send it to the voters.