Conservative worries that ending global warming will 'increase government regulation'

What is it with these people? This is from an op-ed in today's Salt Lake Tribune by Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina:

I am a conservative conservationist who worries that sea levels and government intervention may end up rising together. My earnest hope going forward is that we can find conservative solutions to the climate change problem — ecologically responsible solutions based on free-market principles that both improve our quality of life and safeguard our freedoms.

OK, which is the more important issue here — raising the earth's average temperature by several degrees, or increasing the size of government? And second, it's the bleeping free market that got us into this mess in the first place. Carbon emissions are negative externalities that are ignored by the allegedly perfect free market. You'll notice that the editorial provides no suggestions at all for how the free market itself might bring carbon emissions under control. If Governor Sanford doesn't like the idea of a carbon tax — more of that dreaded Government Regulation — then what is he proposing instead?