Fmr. Secretary of State George Shultz and Environmentalist Paul Ehrlich on Global Warming, Global Warring, China, ...

Among those who were on the panel, was the still-highly influential George Schultz. He served as President Reagan's Secretary of State for nearly his full two terms in office. He was also the president and director of engineering multinational Bechtel and is now a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.

This Sunday in a book review on Vice President Cheney, the New York Times writes, "As the Republican Party was settling on its presidential nominee seven summers ago, no less venerable a statesman than George Shultz was assuring skeptical conservatives that George W. Bush had the potential to be another Ronald Reagan. One reason for his confidence was the "Stanford shuttle" between Palo Alto and Austin, which carried such Hoover Institution luminaries - and White House veterans - as Martin Anderson, Michael J. Boskin and Condoleezza Rice (Shultz's own protégé) on regular treks to Texas."

George Schultz is now speaking out about climate change. He penned an OpEd in Wednesday's Washington Post titled "How to Gain A Climate Consensus" and he drives a Prius. At last night's event put on by the Aurora Institute and the Society of Environmental Journalists, I asked George Schultz about the connection between global warming and global warring.

• George Shultz, former Secretary of State, speaking September 5th at the Aurora Forum.

• Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology and a professor of Population Studies at Stanford University. He is the co-founder of the field of coevolution. He is the author of several books, his most recent is "One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future."