THE global-warming bill moving through Congress would cost the nation nearly $10 trillion -- while doing virtually nothing to stop warming. The Waxman-Markey "cap and trade" bill passed the House in late June; the Senate's due to take it up late this month. Its biggest problem (among many) is that it relies on the myth that we understand exactly what causes warming and what to do about it -- that the only issue is finding the political will. Yet a major new study published in the American Geophysical Union's official publication, the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that most warming...
