Mr Watson's bill was introduced in the House of Commons in March, and is now awaiting a second reading.

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Bill Watson is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

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When Watson's bill was brought before a committee, a who's who of carbon commandos signed up to oppose it, including the Texas Oil and Gas Association, the Gulf Coast Lignite Coalition, the Texas Chemical Council and the Texas Automobile Dealers Association.

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Kirk Watson, a Democrat representing Austin, proposed a bill that would have merely set up a task force to study climate change.

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What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?

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So what this bill does is actually cut off funding for the very people that Diane Watson claims she's trying to help.

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