Associated Press: New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, at a U.N. climate conference drawing hundreds of emissions traders, said Thursday the growing carbon cap-and-trade industry is vulnerable to “special interests, corruption, inefficiencies,” and should be replaced by straight carbon taxes. Speaking of global warming, Bloomberg said, “Most experts would agree that the way to solve the problem is with a carbon tax.” The Kyoto Protocol, requiring 37 industrial nations to …