".. Barack Obama's extraordinary climate plan..."

...then you don't get it either.

Obama's plan is ridiculous pandering to oil, coal, auto, and nuclear interests.

The unifying principle of so-called "opinion leaders" happens to be conventional wisdom (the ultimate oxymoron).  They become opinion leaders by subscribing to that conventional wisdom.  By anticipating and forming it.

Facts need to enter the world view of the opinion leaders.  But that would put them at odds with the conventional wisdom spread by mass delusional media.  Quite a conundrum!  

The main fact?  Distributed renewable energy generation and storage and conservation are ready to solve GHG/energy problems, oil war problems, and economic disaster right now.