Actor Burt Reynolds, left, accepts the action movie star lifetime achievement award from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during the 7th Annual Taurus World Stunt Awards yesterday in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger called Reynolds "the greatest of the great."

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger is in Salt Lake City today for a ceremony that will add Utah to the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative. So far, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia have agreed to join the registry, which would track carbon emissions and establish a trading scheme among the states.

Schwarzenegger is signing the agreement with Jon Huntsman Jr., the California-born Republican governor of Utah. Huntsman's decision, according to the Deseret News, "is a bold move that sends a national message to conservatives that global warming demands attention, according to Dan Schnur, a political science instructor at the University of California Berkeley. Schnur said:

"This has the potential to be the energy version of Nixon going to China. A lot of cold warriors felt much more comfortable establishing relations with China once Nixon was on the issue. A governor like Huntsman from a state like Utah provides cover for conservatives in other places."

Something tells me Schwarzenegger (who is traveling to Canada, England and India this year) likes playing the global diplomat more than policy wonk. The excruciating details of health care reform await him when he returns from Utah. Or, rather, after "The Tonight Show" alongside Debra Messing.