Salon: Earlier this summer, conservatives and libertarians packed Washington, D.C.`s Globe Theatre for a debate on how - or whether, even - Republicans should fight climate change.
On one side were analysts from the Heartland Institute and Heritage Foundation, two climate skepticism groups convinced the Right should never support a tax on the carbon dioxide Americans emit for free.
Theirs is also the position of the Republican Party, whose leaders openly question the science behind global warming,...