Success in Bali on climate change?

There are no shortages of media reports about the US coming around and joining the rest of the world at the Bali conference on climate change. To the degree that the administration recognized the problem and said action needed to be taken, there's not much more here. We have seen Bush the last few years give plenty of lip service but it's a different story when it comes to real actions. Maybe there has been real change and we'll all be shocked at the new Bush. Then again, have we ever once witnessed any movement like this before?

Bush has one more year to go and his entire game plan on everything is to run out the clock. Whether it's the war, the subprime problems or the economy in general it is always about pushing the issue out to the next president. It's nice to see that the US wasn't the class idiot yet again at an international conference, but when I see results over talk, then I will start to believe there is an updated position on climate change.