Michael J. Boskin: Don't Like the Numbers? Change 'Em - WSJ.com

If a CEO issued the kind of distorted figures put out by politicians and scientists, he'd wind up in prison.
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Rabid environmentalists have descended into a separate reality where only green counts. It's gotten so bad that the head of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, announced this past fall that costly new carbon regulations would boost the economy shortly after she was told by eight of the state's most respected economists that they were certain these new rules would damage the economy. The next day, her own economic consultant, Harvard's Robert Stavis, denounced her statement as a blatant distortion.

Scientists are expected to make sure their findings are replicable, to make the data available, and to encourage the search for new theories and data that may overturn the current consensus. This is what Galileo, Darwin and Einstein—among the most celebrated scientists of all time—did. But some climate researchers, most notably at the University of East Anglia, attempted to hide or delete temperature data when that data didn't show recent rapid warming. They quietly suppressed and replaced the numbers, and then attempted to squelch publication of studies coming to different conclusions.

The American Spectator : EPA Sniffs Smog

...levels of air pollution in America have been declining rapidly since the 1950s despite increases in energy consumption and automobile use. According to air quality expert Joel Schwartz, "Even the worst areas have far better air quality than was typical of American cities during the 1950s, '60s, or '70s." Further improvements in air quality are bound to happen anyhow, as technology develops and as vehicles and power plants become cleaner.
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Why, then, has the EPA proposed this rule? Because the Obama administration wants to increase the cost of energy. The President's flagship global warming policy, "cap and trade," remains stalled in the Senate, with Senators of both parties all too aware of the damage it will do to their states. The President, however, promised in his election campaign that energy rates would "necessarily skyrocket," and the smog rule is another way to achieve that end without having to bother with the messy business of gaining Congressional approval.

Forum on the Future of Energy - WOWKTV.com

The Forum on the Future of Energy is a public forum that will include a conversation between Don Blankenship, chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president of Waterkeeper Alliance and an environmentalist.
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The Forum on the future of Energy will be held at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 at the University of Charleston’s Geary Auditorium. There will also be a live remote broadcast in Eddie King Gymnasium. The forum will be aired live on this Web site.

Flashback: Doubting Global Warming Could Be Treason - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

At the Live Earth Concert at Giants Stadium, one of the non musical acts, Robert Kennedy Jr., shouted himself hoarse. He called those people who doubt either that global warming exists or that it is man-made or that it matters traitors and that they should be dealt with as such.

Inhofe to Rolling Stone: Hey, I’m Earth Enemy No. 1 : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily

[Rolling Stone should note that, strictly speaking, our package wasn't a ranking — although Warren Buffet does appear on the first page, while Inhofe rears his ugly mug a few pages later.]