Ever since the Gold Rush, Californians have taken credit for leading the nation and the world with their dynamic culture and responsive politics. But that's hardly the case for their much-vaunted new law restricting the emissions of carbon dioxide to 1990 levels by the year 2020. How sooo 1990s. The California Global Warming Solutions Act is a watered-down version of the 1996 UN Kyoto Protocol, which mandates that most industrial nations reduce their emissions a tiny bit more by 2008-2012. Only one or two major nations may meet Kyoto. The rest failed. California will fail at Kyoto-lite, and New York...