WSJ's "most intertwined politico-economic themes of the year"

In today's Morning Brief email, The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Schuman mostly asks questions about 2008, instead of trying to answer them. But after noting the theme of innovation (good for Apple, bad for mortgage financiers, missing for Bush in Iraq, except perhaps locally), then the pesky presidential question, and under the heading "More Key Questions" he makes a fairly definitive statement. It's our headline, which is only missing the subject: "Oil prices and the environmental effects of burning carbon fuels -- namely, global warming -- are likely to be..."

My question: when will the WSJ Editorial Board notice reality?