The climate change community had two big weeks in a row starting with Hillary Clinton finally coming out against the Keystone XL pipeline and then Shell Oil announcing that it would cease and desist drilling in the Arctic. They were both hard-fought wins. One proved that the pounding paddles of hundreds of "kayaktivists" can actually make a hundred-billion-dollar company blink and the other was yet another reminder that Democratic politicians often have to be backed into a corner before they do the right thing. Hillary’s Keystone pronouncement came after she was asked a simple “yes” or “no” question by Drake University student Clio Cullison: Did she support construction of Keystone XL?