News Analysis Christmastime is here—well, almost—but talk of global warming hasn’t slowed down with the cooling weather. In fact, it seems like concern about the climate influences everything these days. In Washington, the solidly Democratic House has given a divided but Democrat-controlled Senate an expensive new piece of legislation. The $2 trillion “Build Back Better Act” was approved by the House on Nov. 19 with opposition from just one Democrat, Jared Golden (D-Maine). Unsurprisingly, the word “climate” appears in it 131 times, while the words “greenhouse gas” or “greenhouse gases” appear 72 times. This isn’t a new trend. The $1 trillion infrastructure measure, now the law of the land, uses the word “climate” 22 times and the word “carbon” a staggering 203 times. After four years of President Donald Trump, 2021 marked a return to Obama-era form on many issues, climate policy being among them. The Biden administration has stepped up …