Here is my thought for the day (that's right, I only have one per day). Barack Obama has a certain level of expertise in community organizing, which despite what the left had to say during the campaign, is not a bad thing. He has also amassed a rather large army of followers on the internet in addition to his small army of dedicated, enthusiastic, young volunteers. The more I think about it, the more I think that these facets of his campaign should be built up into something more official, and put to work specifically for dealing with cliamate change issues. More specifically, they should deal with energy efficiency in the home issues. I have no idea how he organizes this community, but I presume that the surrogates recieve some training. They should be versed in energy efficiency policies and programs which will enable deeper deployment of related technologies on an individual level. That is, they should be communing with the american public providing insights on how to save energy, and offering advice on what programs are available to help the public increase their homes efficiency.
I believe that one of the biggest problems with addressing climate change is very similar to one of the biggest problems with American elections: getting people to care about the issue enough that they do something about it. Clearly Obama can get people out to vote. Perhaps he can cause the base level momentum shift that is necessary to make people behave more efficiently (with respect to energy) by using the same channels that he used to get out the vote.
Then again, he had that relatively unseen force in George W. Bush driving the enthusiasm of many democrats. Maybe the climate change issue needs such a monstrous character lurking in the background.... I nominate Massey Energy and its CEO Don Blankenship. They might not be the biggest producers of coal, but the mountain top mining they do is just plain horrific. Not mention Blankenship is an arrogant douche.
