Due to some technical difficulties I only caught the last part of today's bloggers briefing, which meant missing most of Rep. Kevin Brady's remarks on the recently launched House GOP’s Fiscal Integrity Task Force. No worries though, David will have some exclusive coverage of FIT Force later this week here at TechRepublican.

I did catch Iain Murray of CEI talk about his recently released book, “The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About—Because They Helped Cause Them.”

Murray was asked what he would question John McCain about regarding his recently unveiled environmental policy?

1) Why does he think cap and trade will reduce energy costs? All the evidence from Europe goes against this plan.
1) The world has not warmed since 2001, but his plan is based on faulty science models that assumed it would, how does he defend that?

Mary Katherine Ham noted that she though the environment was an issue conservatives need to have a better stance on, and wondered what a conservative message on the environment ought to sound like.

Conservatives need to push for the central role of free-markets and property rights.

The passenger pigeon went extinct because no one owned it. The wood duck is doing fine because sportsmen have a vested interest in conserving it.

Also, the role of stewardship is a conservative notion. As conservatives, we're traditionalists and protecting the environment means being a good steward of God's creation. If we can work to combine free-markets and the idea of stewardship we'll have a strong environmental policy that actually works.

What we have to avoid though, is to just adopt the lefts' environmental policy because it has immense costs associated with it.

If you're left craving more environmental reading, check out Heritage's research paper analyzing the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill and the economic impact it would have on America.