The Senate will put off consideration of a climate-change bill until spring - and that’s good news.

Delay gives opponents more time to make their case that any bill resembling the cap-and-trade measure narrowly passed by the House would, in the best case, do almost nothing to lower the earth’s average temperature, would impose vast costs and disruption on a tottering economy, would do little to advance alternate approaches such as the enhancement of forests, ignores the possibility that any warming might be more beneficial than harmful and most likely would be completely irrelevant and ineffective.