Colorado Democrat's decision ruffles political feathers | VailDaily.com

Salazar's vote reflects a growing confidence among Republicans that the “science of man-made global warming” is coming under increasingly skeptical review by moderate Democrats, according to an opinion piece in the June 29 Wall Street Journal by writer Kimberley Strassel.
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[Salazar spokesman] Wortman conceded that “there were a lot of calls … on both sides of the issue … probably a few thousand, with 75 percent opposed.”

[April '08]: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army [by late June '09, did most of this imagined army go AWOL?]

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.