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I received this a couple of days ago from reader Russell Cook and felt the need to share with everyone else.

My story of our local Arizona election results possibly having national or even global implications is at American Thinker.

It’s a simple story - the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) debate is supposed to be settled. But it never happened. To make sure it didn’t happen, it appears an attempt was made to get a highly funded pro-AGW candidate (with ties to George Soros??) into our Arizona Corporation Commission, an agency with elected members who regulate our local electric utility companies - and who will decide if the Western Climate Initiative cap-and-trade plan is credible or pointless.

Since he lost his election (the margin is now over 2,300 votes), Arizona’s GOP legislature leaders and GOP majority in the Corporation Commission can now freely ask the WCI planners, Al Gore and the IPCC, “You say humans are causing global warming. Can you prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt?”

This is an entertaining idea, that there never has been a debate at a major governmental level on whether AGW is sound or seriously flawed. In the case of the eastern/mid-atlantic states, they accepted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s plan with no question of the underlying science whatsoever. If Arizona rejects the Western Climate Initiative’s plan, the next ‘dominoes’ to fall could be Alaska, Idaho and Utah, rejecting the same plan. Wouldn’t that undermine the RGGI to the point of collapse? And if it collapses, how angry would the people living in the eastern/mid-atlantic states be about their own utility regulators’ ability do things right, and their Governors’ failure to understand all sides of the issue?

This is the critical part:  If the idea of AGW falls apart due to inadequate scientific support and appearances of having a political agenda, people will say governments and utility companies exploited it to impose needless laws and raise taxes and utility rates, and officials, politicians and the mainstream media turned a blind eye to the injustice done to credible scientists who correctly criticized the idea from the start. The fallout may be as big as the current financial crisis, where angry ordinary citizens, conservative media outlets, and vocal conservative politicians will be pointing fingers at who is responsible for all the expenses that got poured into a “problem that never existed”.