If climate scientists are right about global warming, we are cooked. The world community will no more likely be able to prevent the emergence of the predicted “Climate Armageddon” than it was able to prevent global warming in the first place.

The unheralded problem, largely hidden in plain sight and underplayed by knowledgeable climate scientists, is that correction of global warming is bedeviled by the same economic and political trap that has been at the foundation of global warming itself: the…