While Warner-Lieberman, the most sweeping climate change reform to date, is set to go up for debate in the in the Senate next week, Massachusetts State Representative Ed Markey has drawn up his own, even more impressive cap-and-trade legislation.

 Dubbed the Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act (iCAP, for short), the bill calls for an 85 percent cut in heat-trapping emissions by 2050, funded by a massive cap-and-trade plan. Auxiliary programs include closer regulation of coal mines, landfills and other operations that contribute to global warming.

 However, conventional wisdom suggests that Markey’s bill, despite the fact that it comes the closest of any legislation to addressing the scientific realities of global warming, will be even less popular than Warner-Lieberman (which isn’t exactly setting the world on fire).

 Since you don’t mind paying a few cents a gallon to save the planet, this might be the sort of thing you want to write your Congressman about.