The title is from Anne Applebaum's column in today's Washington Post.  I wanted to use "It’s the Technology, Stupid" but it turns out we already wrote that one last year regarding the flawed Lieberman-Warner bill stating:

Given the complex nature of the problem, the answer on climate change is quite clear, technology.  Technology in new non-fossil fuel production; technology in cleaner fossil-fuel production; and technology to make every aspect of our energy use more efficient.

How very sad that a year later the climate change debate is still mired in an ineffective, ideological swamp. Applebaum writes:

The truth is that carbon emissions will not be reduced by international bureaucrats, however well-meaning, sitting in a room and signing a piece of paper. They will not be reduced by public relations campaigns or by Oscar-winning documentaries. Above all, they will not be reduced by a complex treaty that neither the United Nations nor anyone else can possibly supervise, particularly not a treaty that effectively punishes those countries that abide by it and ignores everyone else. They can, however, be reduced by the efforts of entrepreneurs such as Pickens. If he and others can find economically viable ways to produce clean energy, then the problem will solve itself without the aid of a single international conference. To put it another way: The first solar power billionaire will have many, many imitators...

If you care about the planet, save the jet fuel, cancel the conferences and focus on creating the economic conditions for energy entrepreneurship. Then, this problem will eventually solve itself.