Clinton’s speaking at the U.N. conference in Montreal today on behalf of the Kyoto pact–you know, the global environmental treaty that he championed but that Bush promptly backed down from the moment he stepped into office.

The Bush administration says it prefers to deal with climate issues on a bilateral or regional basis, not through global negotiations, and favors voluntary approaches. As a demonstration of U.S. efforts to combat climate change, it points to $3 billion a year in U.S. government spending on research and development of energy-saving technologies.

Hmm, that’s more than a billion dollars less than we’re spending in Iraq each month.