Reminder from Davos: As much of the world moves away from global warming hysteria, it looks like Obama is still stuck in 2007

2007: Climate change high on the agenda at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos

Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2007 – With 17 sessions on climate change at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this will be one of the "greenest" ever at Davos.

2008: Davos: Climate change is out of fashion

This morning's panel mixed energy producers and climate experts. The producers thought technology would come up with the answers. De Boer was having none of it: it's a lazy message, he said - a call to roll over, go back to sleep, nothing's going to happen in the short-term and solutions are going to kick in after that.

2009: At Davos, Economic Crisis Culls the Guest List - NYTimes.com

And with much of the financial system in Britain and the United States edging toward a government takeover, the 2009 agenda at Davos, “Shaping the Post-Crisis World,” seems to have concentrated minds on the here and now more than past themes like climate change and globalization.

By the way, also from 2009: Davos scales back glitz

There will still be receptions with canapes and champagne, but no A-list Hollywood stars such as previous guests Angelina Jolie and Sharon Stone.

Even Bono, the U2 frontman who has prodded the wealthy for years at Davos to give more to the poor, is not coming.

"Bono has a day job, too," said forum spokesman Mark Adams. "He's finishing an album."