Paulson and Kyoto

US Treasury Secretary John Snow is finally being booted out, and low-and-behold there actually seems to be a reasonable man being nominated in his stead:

President Bush’s new nominee for Treasury Secretary, Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., not only endorses the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse emissions, but argues that the United States’ failure to enact Kyoto undermines the competitiveness of U.S. companies.

The White House must be scrapping the bottom of the barrel if they're bringing some Kyoto sissy onboard. It's too bad the Bush administration keeps their cabinet secretaries shuttered off to the side and all but invisible.

Don't worry, though, the right-wingers are going to do all they can to scuttle this nomination:

As a result, Paulson’s nomination is strongly opposed by a coalition of right-wing groups seeking to cast doubt on climate science, such as the National Center for Public Policy Research, describing Paulson as “diametrically opposed to the positions of [the Bush] Administration.”