The Capital Research Center has just published its latest Organization Trends report (click the PDF), which focuses on the Center for Climate Strategies.
Reviewers like me say it is “must reading,” “compelling,” and that they
“couldn’t put it down.” Of course, I’ve had an intense interest in this
group for at least a year, and it helps that our friend Chris Horner
(“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming”) put the piece together. As CRC summarizes:
To use nightmare scenarios to forge national policies
the activists have decided to circumvent the outgoing Bush
administration ? and more to the point, Congress ? and get state
governors to follow their advice. That?s where the Center for Climate
Strategies (CCS) comes in. CCS persuades governors to appoint ?study
commissions? on global warming, then steers the policy process, rigging
commission proceedings to produce a predetermined result: higher energy
costs, diminished property and other individual rights, and more Big
Government. These undemocratic maneuvers do an end-run around state
legislators and should trouble advocates of open government.
Chris does a great job explaining comprehensively how CCS works, how
they are funded, and what are the fruits of their efforts. Read it.
Cross-posted at Cooler Heads.
