Idaho Examiner: Attorney General's Conference on Energy: More Harm Than Good? "My Idaho...My Planet Rocks!"

Idaho’s Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, serving as the president of the national association of Attorneys General, has convened the nation’s AGs in Coeur d’Alene for a discussion of energy matters.

Oddly, yesterday’s keynote speaker, the president of Shell Oil, told the assembled dignitaries that he accepts the theory that humans are causing global warming and is virtually begging the federal government to impose caps on greenhouse gases.

He is in favor of increasing fuel efficiency mandates, which only deprive American consumers of choices and make driving more dangerous for Americans as families are forced into smaller and lighter vehicles that provide less protection in accidents.

These are inexplicable views for an oil executive to take, in light of the fact that there has been no global warming whatsoever in the last decade; in fact, global temperatures declined by ¾ of a degree last year alone. All this despite rapidly increasing accumulations of CO2 in the atmosphere as the economies of China and India expand rapidly. (China now emits more CO2 than the U.S.)

His appearance at Wasden’s invitation may do incalculable damage to America’s energy interests and consequently to America’s economy and the families who depend on it, simply because of the enormous influence state attorneys general have in reviewing legislation and initiating litigation.

Carbon caps on greenhouse gases are unnecessary, will do nothing to affect climate change, and will cripple the American economy. Wasden would have done far better to invite Christopher Horner to jet up to CDA after speaking at BSU on Tuesday night.

Horner is the author of the devastating critique of global warming hysteria, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming,” and could have given these influential public officials a more scientifically defensible view of climate change issues.