If global warming is a problem (and I?ll leave that debate to others), it?s clear that government policies designed to stifle growth will offer no viable solution.

What will help us solve any problems associated with global warming is wealth ? the kind of wealth that can fund ideas like this one in the latest Newsweek.

The idea of a bacterium that eats carbon dioxide and spews fuel sounds strange to me, but I?m no technological innovator. If the idea shows any signs of promise, wealth will flow toward it.

What a shame it would be it society lost out on a good idea (whether it?s this one or another that appears a bit kooky today) because alarmists convinced people to sacrifice economic growth for no climate benefits.