Indiana- TribStar.com - Online Readers’ Forum: Climate action may be unnecessary

I appreciate John Allen’s response to my letter on Global Warming and particularly his agreement that "The science of global warming is not settled." Perhaps we can have a rational dialogue, which is more than Al Gore and the alarmists will do. They simply assert that its too late to even talk about the problem and that we must implement their solutions immediately or the planet will be toast in the next 10 years. Gore attacks anyone who does not agree that global warming requires the reordering of human economics and society. He calls them crackpots and "deniers", comparing them to people who deny the Holocaust...

The American Spectator : Paul Chesser : Thwarting Energy Exploration in Colorado

Over at my Web site I've posted a long, blow-by-blow account of how Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and his administration repeatedly enlisted the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to pay for his global warming alarmist agenda (a "new energy economy") and for his efforts to keep the federal Bureau of Land Management from leasing for oil and gas exploration on the Roan Plateau. It's sometimes a dry recitation but there are a ton of documents linked that I obtained from the governor's office and from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.

The quick-'n-dirty summary: Almost immediately after he took office Ritter had a "Climate Action Plan" he wanted to pursue, which included two new positions in his administration: a cabinet-level climate policy adviser to create "a bold and visionary climate action policy," and a liaison to the Public Utilities Commission to "develop a climate-wise utility policy." He asked for, and got, two annual grants from Hewlett for $200,000 ($400,000 total) to fund the positions. Ritter worked through Hewlett's environmental program director Hal Harvey -- a far-left, Obama-supporting (and -contributing) environmental extremist who founded the Energy Foundation and is president of the crackpot enviro/population control-advocating New-Land Foundation -- to pay for his climate people. I guess the state budget process would not come up with the money fast enough for Ritter.