Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper runs for statewide office; loses interest in the global warming hoax

Denver mayor and Colorado guv candidate talks bike-sharing, light rail, and coal | Grist

As more people become conscious of health, air quality, the billions of dollars we send to foreign dictatorships to import oil ... all these elements [Where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced apocalypse?] suggest to someone that, all things being equal, you'd want to be on a bike.
...I try not to look at it in terms of any one thing. Climate change is important, but let's look at the other things. It's about clean air and the environment, it's about national security.

Flashback: John Hickenlooper's Flip-Flop on Global Warming | Rocky Mountain Right

...Contrast that statement with liberal Democrat Mayor Hickenlooper's statements only a few months ago while attending the Copenhagan conference on climate change:

Global warming skeptics out there, take note: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is looking to change your mind.

The city's chief executive is in Copenhagen, Denmark this week for the world's climate change conference and says the evidence he's seen from scientists across the world is "shocking."

"It's pretty compelling," the mayor said by phone on Tuesday morning. "It really does make you say, 'Gosh, I know it's going to be hard. It's going to be unpopular [to change].' My takeaway is I want to come back to Denver and sit down with every skeptic I can find and just walk them through all the evidence." (9 News)