Meanwhile, outside the self-referential Cult of Neo-Keynesianism, in the past two years a dramatic shift in the international elite opinion stream is bringing the gold option back into consideration.
Thanks to the Benguela Stream, and a few other ships, an international research team now thinks it knows how to monitor the oceans' appetite for CO2 much more precisely.
She adds that Ms Ashton's visit is the latest in a stream of high-level diplomatic meetings that reveal a rapidly escalating process of international engagement between Burma and the rest of the world.