It's true, it's an enormous money sink. It's not like we can let the government we just installed collapse, but we can't prop it up against the corruption of it's own people forever, either.

It's tough to tell with Global Warming what's legitimate and what's just rhetoric. It's a travesty, really, that we would take something potentially important and either fabricate or ignore facts about it. My guess is that in ten years, scientists are going to laugh at us over the entire thing. There'll have been some explanation or solution we ignored because we were too wrapped up in politics.