SENATE REJECTS EMISSIONS BILL

Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, proposed a greenhouse gas emissions bill that was voted down by the Senate 55 to 43. The Bush administration opposed the bill because it would be economically devastating.

Proponents of the bill want to limit emissions because some scientists think that the world will end if we don't. Opponents voted against the bill because their scientists think the proponents' scientists are full of greenhouse and other gases. In other words, there is no common agreement on the interpretation of scientific data.

It is ludicrous to make public policy based on disputed interpretations of two groups of experts when each are paid to have a particular defined opinion.