Thursday Night's Carbon Footprint

Planet Gore on National Review Online

...None of this would have been possible without extraordinary emissions of carbon dioxide in a city that has seen its carbon footprint expand by 24 percent in the last 15 years because . . . it is prospering. According to the Mile High City’s green watch dog, the Greenprint Advisory Council, Denver’s emissions explosion comes “in almost direct proportion to the significant population growth Denver has experienced.”

Paradoxically, the restrictive, prudishly green Democratic Party and its “green” convention were attracted to this frontier city because it is growing (unlike, say, Detroit, which has seen declining population, growth, and CO2 emissions). As my Detroit News colleague Jeff Hadden likes to say (quoting Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds): “I’ll believe global warming