A groundswell of new international initiatives will soon emerge to move this agenda forward.

Reassured by this groundswell of support, the Eurocrats should be fostering a much more pluralistic approach to EU policymaking and debate.

Enlargement is now more easily politicized in individual member states, and this is especially the case where there is a groundswell of Euro skepticism upon which to draw.

After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is not surprising that this estimate did not exactly generate a groundswell of public support for military intervention in Syria.

The real groundswell this time seems to have come from the close timing and positive outcomes of recent elections in Iraq, Palestine, and to a lesser degree in Saudi Arabia.

But the fact is that this groundswell has in large part been catalyzed by the existing targets, timetables, and innovative mechanisms of the UN climate treaties, and not least by the momentum generated around the often criticized 2009 Copenhagen summit.

I had thought that after so much exposure, thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God s forgiveness, and that a popular groundswell of revulsion, similar to the nineteenth century anti slavery movement, would emerge.