Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden isn’t ready to say humans are the cause of climate change. But the president of the National Association of Attorneys General said the Earth is warming, polar ice caps are melting, and public officials like him need to educate themselves about the subject. If the majority of the world’s scientists are right, energy production is the largest source of carbon, the major greenhouse gas that leads to global warming. So Wasden has made energy issues the major initiative for the national group this year, he told the Idaho Environmental Forum Thursday at the Rose Room. He’s bringing the attorneys general to Coeur d’Alene this spring for an energy conference May 6 and 7. Public officials and experts from industry, environmental groups and universities will talk about the alternatives to meet the demand for energy that will grow three times by 2050 worldwide. Conservation and carbon-free energy sources like wind and solar power will become increasingly important to meet energy needs, Wasden said. But even these projects attract opposition from people who don’t want windmills, solar collectors or even clotheslines in their neighborhoods. Nuclear power has even larger issues – and more […]