Welcome.  This evening your writer is  live-blogging the latest stop on the Americans for Prosperity’s Hot Air Tour, which is being broadcast live to over 20 states and worldwide via the AFP website.

This stop is in Cancun, Mexico and features an event entitled “Unmasking International Global Warming Alarmism.”

Though the actual event is happening in Cancun, Mexico, your blogger is actually located in Raleigh, at the North Carolina office of Americans for Prosperity (AFP).  It’s going to be loads of fun.

This event is the official North Carolina state AFP party and is complete with “beach party” style posters, tee shirts, and beach balls.  Additionally, Grassroots Director, Chris Marie Farr, provided a feast of Mexican style food, with Mexican style decorations.  The NC team has gone  all out!

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Farr started off the program by addressing some of the concerns of “climate change”, formerly known to liberals as “global warming”.  She also provided background and history of the legislation and introduced the speakers here in Raleigh and mentioned those who would be speaking down in Cancun.

In Raleigh, we are lucky to have Darren Bakst and Roy Cordato, Ph.D. from the John Locke Foundation.

Currently, State Director Dallas Woodhouse is speaking to the group of about 60, via Skype from Cancun.  He joked about having been there in college, but this time it was completely serious.

He spoke of seeing “too much Communist Red” and how we conservatives are slowing beginning to win the debate.  ”More and more people are beginning to see this logically”, he told the group.

It’s against the federal constitution of Mexico for foreigners to get in and protest and he has to be low key.

He’s not gonna change the minds of the “kooks down here”, but he wants to change the minds of Americans, he said in response to a question of  this blogger.

This conference, he said, was about redistribution of wealth, sadly.  He added that he can get into some of the meetings if he is really low key.

There are a number of Americans down there, he said, supporting AFP and a number of KCC’s fellow conservative bloggers, including Warner Todd Huston, someone KCC respects and admires!

Roy Cordato Ph.D, of the John Locke Foundation is now speaking.

Cordato said that the alarmists have said that every person on earth must cut their CO2 use by 75% over the next 100 years.  Even still, he added,  Europe will still warm and the polar ice caps will melt.  The warming will occur by so few degrees, that it’s statistically insignificant.

Update: Currently APF national president, Tim Phillips is speaking live via the AFP website (via satellite). Tune in here.

Phillips is a true believer, folks, and this blogger had the opportunity to campaign, door-to-door with him, his son, and a bus full of others in Las Vegas, against Harry Reid during the RightOnline 2010 conference. This man can take that Vegas heat in July! He believes in AFP, and so do we at KCC.

The Raleigh group is currently watching the live webcast which features a number of guests, including blogger extraordinare Andrew Breitbart.  Unfortunately we  have a few  technical difficulties from Cancun and will misss all of Breitbart’s talk.

Thus, your blogger looks forward to seeing the webcast in its entirety on Friday at the CostofHotAir.com website.

By the way, If you have an account, follow the discussion on Twitter by searching for, and using the hashtag #hatcan  There are many private citizens who are in Cancun, tweeting the event.

Stan Young, a statistician, told the Raleigh crowd that there isn’t much in the way of temperature records.  ”Only about 150 years worth”.  After proper statistical data has been undertaken and overridden what is corrupted, “it could be that there is no global warming at all,” Young concluded. (Google the term “Climate-gate” for more information about how the data was suppressed and corrupted.)

9:36: More coming soon.  I’m getting thrown out of the meeting room as the event ended at 9 p.m.  More to come.

10:31 p.m.  The meeting ended about 90 minutes ago and this blogger has just arrived home.

Global warming is an issue that this blogger previously taken lightly, as she had grown tired of the liberals and other alarmists harping on the issue. In short, KCC tuned them out.

All she really felt was this:  change is cyclical, yet constant.  Tempertatures rise and fall over time.  The earth goes through heating periods and through cooling periods, such as the Little Ice Age that occured from the 16th to the 19th centuries.   This included the American Revolutionary War period.

We can no longer afford to have such simplistic views of the issue.  There have been bills circulating through Congress for several years that would strengthen the Clean Air Act, thus giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) even more power over our lives.  We must continue to contact our Senators and Members of Congress to discourage their passage.

Ironcally, today, December 2nd, is the 40th anniversary of the EPA.

Yesterday, liberal site Greenwire (among others), announced some very good news for conservatives. The new House Republican majority in Washington will no longer hold certain committee meetings:

Republicans have decided to kill the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, current ranking member Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) announced yesterday. “This will be the final hearing of the select committee,” Sensenbrenner said. The announcement came during a star-studded hearing called by Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) focused on a range of energy and climate issues — including planetary security.

(Greenwire, 12/02/2010 House Global Warming Committee Goes Gentle Into That Good Night)

The terrible thing about this “UN-sponsored” conference is that it is actually funded by American taxpayers.  As attendees saw in secretely filmed videos, conference attendees have been well-feted.

At many events, taxpayer-funded alcohol and high-quality food was served to “dignataries” from around the world.  If this isn’t a good enough reason to get the United States out of the United Nations, now, KCC doesn’t know what is!

This ends the coverage of the North Carolina party. Thanks for being with us this evening.

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