Hat tip to Orbusmax for pointin out this piece from KGW.Com:

In the face of evidence agreed upon by hundreds of climate scientists, George Taylor holds firm. He does not believe human activities are the main cause of global climate change.

Taylor also holds a unique title: State Climatologist.

Taylor has held the title of “state climatologist” since 1991 when the legislature created a state climate office at OSU The university created the job title, not the state.

His opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon’s policies.

So the governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint.

In an exclusive interview with KGW-TV, Governor Ted Kulongoski confirmed he wants to take that title from Taylor. The governor said Taylor’s contradictions interfere with the state’s stated goals to reduce greenhouse gases, the accepted cause of global warming in the eyes of a vast majority of scientists.

“He is Oregon State University’s climatologist. He is not the state of Oregon’s climatologist,” Kulongoski said.

Kulongoski said the state needs a consistent message on reducing greenhouse gases to combat climate change.

The Governor says, “I just think there has to be somebody that says, ‘this is the state position on this.’”

So, what Kulongoski really wants is a mouthpiece, with a sheepskin that can lend his prognotications some credence.  He is not concerned with the science, but with the politics, and making sure that the person who holds the title of State Climatoligist parrots the orthodoxy of the Church of the Environment, and it’s Pontiff, AlGore.

Why stop with the State Climatologist?  Why not appoint Ehren Watada as head of the Oregon National Guard (assuming he is not in federal prison)?