This Saturday I will be speaking at the Skeptic Society conference "The Environmental Wars: The Science Behind the Politics," hosted by Dr. Michael Shermer at the California Institute of Technology. My talk is titled "The Fables of Federal Environmental Regulation: A Re--examination of the Reasons for Federal Environmental Regulation." Other speakers at the conference include David Baltimore, Michael Crichton, Gregory Benford, David Goodstein, and John Stossel, so I expect there to be quite a bit of disagreement on a variety of issues. I'm particularly looking forward to the debate between Chris Mooney and Ronald Bailey on the politicization of science. Technology willing, I will live-blog much of the conference over at The Commons Blog. More conference details here.

My blog posts on the Skeptics Society's "Environmental Wars" conference are now posted on The Commons Blog and indexed here.

UPDATE: DeSmog Blog also blogged on the conference (albeit from a different perspective) here.