Senator John F. Kerry, who has added global warming atop the Foreign Relations Committee’s to-do list, told industry officials and others today that a clean energy revolution is coming — and they need to get on board. ‘We are in the midst of a fundamental shift in our national and governmental priorities that could one day be remembered-alongside the presidencies of Roosevelt, Johnson, and Reagan-as truly transformational,’ Kerry said at a forum sponsored by Hitachi and featuring panels organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Brookings Institution. Kerry noted that the economic stimulus package includes $80 billion for alternative energy. He also pointed out that President Obama, in his address to a joint session of Congress last week and in his proposed budget, called for capping carbon emissions and creating a market for the sale of pollution credits. ‘Cap-and-trade is no longer an academic question,’ Kerry said, according to prepared remarks. ‘The President and leadership in both houses of Congress are on board to make it a reality, and you need to start preparing to take advantage of it.’ ‘If passed, this will constitute the most significant realignment of our energy […]