Betsy Taylor: Taking on the Pessimists in Poznan

At a side-event yesterday, an adviser to climate champion Richard Lugar also lowered hopes by suggesting the U.S. will never come up with 67 votes in the Senate to ratify a treaty even if we could negotiate it in a timely way. Joe Romm of Climate Progress blogged that there is literally no hope of gaining a deal on Capitol Hill or in Copenhagen this year.