From the Examiner:Saving energy may not be so easy after all. A television commercial featuring Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter was meant to show viewers how easy it is to save energy, but it showed Ritter using more, not less. The original, which aired for weeks, showed Ritter turning a thermostat down from 72 degrees to 68. But during the summer, that means the air conditioner would work harder - and use more energy. I would need to see this commercial to believe it. Apparently, some remedial education is needed as part of Gov. Ritter's "Climate Action Plan". Bill Ritter would have known he couldn't turn his thermostat down to 68 if Barack Obama had been on his shoulder: … [Read more...]
Bill Ritter Announces Earth Day Regulations Out of the “Blue Sky”
From today's Denver Post:Gov. Bill Ritter celebrated Earth Day beneath an unblemished blue sky this morning by enacting several major pieces of his Climate Action Plan, including a statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction standard. I'm curious to know why the phrase "an unblemished blue sky" was included in the lead sentence. It would have been a lot more compelling to read that Ritter was standing beneath "a smog-filled sky," or that he was "drenched in sweat from the Climate Change-induced heat wave." But then again, Steven Hayward at Human Events explains how the radical environmental agenda has been a victim of its own success:Time magazine this week is running its sixth cover story about global warming, but one of these days … [Read more...]
Getting the Whole Story Behind Ritter’s Climate Action Plan
The story behind Gov. Ritter's Climate Action Plan? A Face the State report today says there's more than meets the eye. Here's the heart of it:[Climate Strategies Watch director Paul] Chesser said his research has shown that a CCS-created template ends up pushing the same costly policy agenda in most or all the different states in which it has operated. Its prescriptions regularly include carbon taxes, cap-and-trade regulations, and renewable energy mandates.“The whole stakeholder process has been granted a credibility that it does not deserve,†he said. “It’s a fixed process created, controlled, and run by CCS, and funded by global warming alarmist advocates, which calls everything it does into question.†In addition to … [Read more...]