Look who FOX News calls an "Environment Expert"
September 21, 2009 6:38 pm ET by Jamison Foser
A Jim Angle report on cap and trade just featured a clip of Myron Ebell warning that environmental legislation would lead to "energy rationing" and higher prices. And who is Myron Ebell? FOX News identified him only via a chyron labeling him an "Energy and Environment Expert."
In fact, Ebell is Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy for the Conservative Enterprise Institute and "chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which comprises over two dozen non-profit groups in this country and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies."
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has enjoyed funding from, among others, Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Texaco, General Motors, Richard Mellon Scaife's foundations, and the Koch family foundations (Koch Industries is the nation's largest privately-held energy company and a record-setting polluter. Oh, and they use the fortune the accumulated in part by stealing oil from US taxpayers and Indian lands to provide millions of dollars in funding for the conservative movement.)
Anyway, FOX Viewers don't know any of that. They're just told that Myron Ebell is an "Energy and Environment Expert." I guess FOX figures that telling them Ebell is funded by the nation's worst polluters would just confuse them.
Other than attempt to discredit him, you've not shown that he doesn't speak the truth.
JBT
First, Ebell is NOT an "evnironmental expert", as claimed. From his bio on the CEI website: "While at Frontiers of Freedom, he worked on property rights, the Endangered Species Act, federal-lands policies, and global warming.". I guess this makes him an expert in property law, biology, geopolitics, and climate?
Second, it would be up to Ebell to provide evidence that the legislation would lead to energy rationaing and higher prices, NOT for anyone who doesn't believe his claim to disprove it. That would be like me claiming that you're a cross-dressing pedophile - without evidence - and leaving it to you to provide sufficient proof that you're not. Good luck with that.
"A native of Baker City, Oregon, Mr. Ebell holds a B.A. from Colorado College and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He also did graduate work at the University of California at San Diego and at Peterhouse, Cambridge University."
Maybe I'm just off-base here, and like his unmentioned "recognitions", the segment of his life where he learned enough about environmental issues to become an "expert" goes without saying.