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Governors (Two) Bark Back

By Paul Chesser on 7.20.09 @ 6:08AM

Western govs Otter know better than let themselves be controlled by global warmist fanatics.

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Given the past history of Montana's Schweitzer, WGA's chairman, and Idaho's Otter, the vice chairman, it's not surprising that Cummins easily got them to sign the aggressive response letter to NTU. Schweitzer's emphasis on environmental issues is well established, and not long ago Otter revealed his flawed thinking on global warming:

"No matter what theory you accept or what evidence you recognize, the public reality is that our climate is getting warmer," Otter said [in October 2007]. "We ignore reality at our own peril.… We must think of adapting to a changing climate in ways the public and marketplace can accept."

The climate has been cooling for a decade now, but that's beside the point. WCI is in fact a project supported by only a handful of Western governors, and many find it objectionable in that it -- as well as most other WGA projects -- pushes an agenda that locks up their vast natural gas and oil resources for exploration and extraction, and therefore inhibits economic development and prosperity for their citizens.

It's understandable that many WGA members might view the organization as a necessary irritant that they must pay homage to once a year or so. But now it's become an extension of the environmental extremism movement, and they need to fully audit its books, identify where the agenda has gone off track, and rein it in.

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topics:
Global Warming, Environmentalism, Democratic Party

About the Author

Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (22) | Leave a comment

Jason Gillman| 7.20.09 @ 10:04AM

"The letter, almost certainly composed by WCI project manager Patrick Cummins (a WGA staffer whose name pops up as the author in the Microsoft Word version of the letter)"

Pesky give-aways those little artifacts..

Author: Here guv, sign this
Guv: "why is your hand on the text?"
Author: "To hold the ink down.."

Marc Jeric| 7.20.09 @ 2:24PM

Intimidation by our ec0-nazis proceeds apace. Real independent US scientists, all 31,478 of them with 9,029 PhD's among them have declared that man-caused global warming is a huge hoax (see Internet for "Global Warming Petition Project"). See also "Manhattan Declaration" for more such scientists. Not government and UN-paid drones, almost all rejects of private enterprise - real scientists.

Richard Baker| 7.20.09 @ 2:47PM

What has always made me laugh are these petitions stating that x-number of Ph.D.s signed the document demanding that something be done about "global warming". Then you find that foreign language, English, and other liberal arts professors are the ones signing these things. Strange that the title of Ph.D. is muisused so. No one could possibly trying to deceive, could they? This whole effort is to fool people with any tool possible. "Political science" at it's worst. And there is no "consensus". I'd bet that a lot of these "climate" experts are grant whores trolling for Federal money.

Russell Seitz| 7.21.09 @ 2:06AM

Gosh, Marc , all those Real independent US scientists, all 31,478 of them with 9,029 PhD's among them, must have belted out a carload of atmospheric science papers by now.

To shame the consensus coddling warmistas into submission , why don't you post the top ten in terms of scientific impact , as tabulated by the guileless folks over at Science Citation Index- no rejects of private enterprise there.

You might also call up your own bibliography to share with us- this is your fifth or sixth repetition of the same empty statistics and it is beginning to cloy.

Richard Baker| 7.21.09 @ 7:06PM

Correction: misused, not muisused

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