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Today marks the beginning of Americans for Prosperity’s Hot Air Tour across six cities in middle America. On the heels of its successful Ending Earmarks Express tour, AFP has shifted gears to shine the spotlight on global warming. Follow the progress CostofHotAir.com.

AFP’s activism is just one of several new projects under way to combat global warming alarmists and the forthcoming Lieberman-Warner climate change bill in Congress. With notable conservatives such as Newt Gingrich and John McCain sounding more like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi these days, there’s reason to be concerned.

One of the best resources for the latest news on global warming is a new blog called The Chilling Effect. It combines hard news and research with editorial cartoons and other buzz on the subject. I encourage you to keep an eye on it.

This blog and other websites like it (including the valuable GlobalWarming.org) will serve as important sources of information as conservatives prepare to fight the costly Lieberman-Warner climate change bill. An early analysis of the bill done by my colleagues at Heritage shows just how damaging it would be to our economy.