WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama tries to green the United States by slapping limits on carbon emissions, Congress has been was told to ignore his plan because climate change does not exist. ‘The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing,’ said British aristocrat Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, a leading proponent of the ‘climate change is myth’ movement. The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who was an advisor to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, argued before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that for 14 years, contrary to broadly accepted scientific beliefs, ‘there has been no statistically significant global warming.’ The House hearing, titled ‘Adaptation Policies in Climate Legislation,’ discussed ways to address President Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal in his 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan, presented to Congress in February. Obama’s proposal would limit emissions of greenhouse gases for manufacturers, and permit companies to trade the right to pollute to other firms — a similar cap-and-trade system to the European model. The moves are now subject of intense political opposition in Congress, notably from lawmakers representing US states heavily invested in energy production through fossil fuels. ‘Adaptation […]