Idaho conservation politics: Minnick and Sali disagree on climate change

Representative Sali says no human caused climate change-

Democrat Walt Minnick is challenging one-term Republican U.S. Representative in Idaho’s first congressional district. Polls show the race to be close.

Rocky Barker has a report this morning on a clear difference (there are many differences, but this applies to the topics commonly discussed on this forum).

Minnick and Sali disagree on climate change. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman.

Years earlier Minnick won some fame and notoriety in Idaho when as CEO of a timber-related company, he argued that it was not necessary for the timber industry to be awarded “below-cost” timber sales on public lands from the taxpayers in order to make a profit.

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October 16, 2008

Climate Change, Politics

Ralph Maughan

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congressional races, election 2008, Idaho politics

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Alan Gregory

October 19, 2008

Read this http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080529_DearGovernorGreenwash.pdf
Dear Governor Greenwash letter from climate scientist Dr. James Hansen (director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies).

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Ralph Maughan

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.

Idaho conservation politics: Minnick and Sali disagree on climate change

Representative Sali says no human caused climate change-

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