The Conservative Revolution

I attended the weekly Bloggers Briefing hosted by Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation today. We had a good discussion about the policy implications of climate change legislation. Here are a couple of things that I want to share with my readers.

First, Iain Murry has a new book out entitled The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About - Because They Helped Cause Them.

Iain blogs at CEI’s Open Market and National Review Online. I’m looking forward to reading his book.

Also, the Heritage Foundation has released a new study anaylyzing the Warner-Lieberman ‘cap and trade’ bill that will be up for debate this summer. Its findings are breathtaking in terms of the huge economic costs that ‘cap and trade’ would impose on the U.S. I’ve got a post over at Freedom Talks that links directly to the study.

Al Gore has a multi-year plan to convince Americans to “go green.” And he seems to have deeper pockets than the oil companies. Or, is Big Oil footing the bill?

Tim Carney writes,

on the issue of global warming, a few very well-connected companies are leading the charge for mandatory federal restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. They plan to get rich off of these restrictions in one way or another, and they’ve convinced other companies to jump on the bandwagon. But I promise you, that not all of these “green” corporations are going to come out in the black from this.