Capping CO2 emissions has wide support

A new Washington Post - ABC News poll says three quarters of Americans support regulating "the release into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases from power plants, cars and factories to reduce global warming, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with substantial majority support from Democrats, Republicans and independents."

A slight majority - 52 percent - favor cap and trade as the means to achieve that regulation. I'm betting that a majority of those in favor as well as those opposed could accurately describe what cap and trade is and who it applies to under Waxman-Markey. Still, the support shows that this idea's time has come, and not a moment too soon.

In six months, the world will convene in Copenhagen to negotiate a new international climate agreement that might be pivotal in the survival of the planet and human life beyond the 21st Century.