Newsweek magazine has a lame article on human-caused global warming in its latest issue. It starts out with the discredited story that the Competitive Enterprise Institute was "bribing" scientists to come out against global warming.

There's no need to really read the article, you've heard it all before: Global -warming deniers are funded by big oil and the science is clear and unanimous.

Marlo Lewis makes an insightful point about global warming and the joke known as the Kyoto accord over at National Review's "Planet Gore" blog.

In short, the leading scientific and economic assessments published in 1998 revealed that Kyoto was all pain for no gain. Clinton’s decision not to seek ratification of Kyoto was the right decision on the merits.

Would Clinton have pushed for Kyoto ratification if groups like CEI had kept mum and policy makers had to depend on Newsweek to learn about the Wigley and EIA studies? We will never know.

This much is—for want of a better word—undeniable: The resources wielded by pro-Kyoto advocacy groups vastly exceed those of pro-market groups like CEI. Newsweek misses the real point of the story: The tail cannot wag the dog unless the merits of the argument favor the tail.

It may take a few more decades, but it will be interesting to see what the alarmists have to say when nothing they say comes to pass.