The message at the climate change conference sponsored this morning by the Washington, D.C. law firm Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP was very clear--a progressive movement is afoot to effect monumental change in the way Americans think and in the way America runs its economy, and the proponents of individual rights and a free-market system had better get to the table and make their positions known before they become the main course on the menu.

Panel participants Jason Johnston (Director of

I'm planning on starting out my week by listening in to a web-based program on the legal environment of global climate change that's titled "Stormy Weather Ahead?" The program is sponsored by Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP in Washington, D.C. and features the input of Professor Jason Johnson, Director of the Program on Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Richard O. Faulk and John S. Gray, partners in the Gardere firm.

The program takes place Monday, Oct. 29, 200