Detroit – As with the health-care bill currently staggering through Congress, voters may not know all the details of Climategate — but they know corruption when they smell it. Michigan’s Mackinac Center took advantage of increased public awareness of the issue by organizing a panel, “The Changing Debate on Climate Change,” for the benefit of a state in the crosshairs of Washington warming legislation. The event was held Tuesday at Oakland University north of Detroit.

Attendance was robust and the discussion lively. Moderated by Mackinac’s senior environmental-policy analyst Russ Harding, the panel included myself, Shikha Dalmia of Reason, and Paul Chesser of the Heartland Institute. We three made a good team — starting at 30,000 feet with Paul’s Climategate overview, then Shikha’s look at the national economic consequences of cap and trade, and then my Michigan-level view of the very real threat CO2 cutbacks pose to this industrial state.

The full video of the 1.5 hour session is here. And Mackinac coverage is here.