Today’s must-read

A must-read is today’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal (free subscription required) — “Global Warming Gag Order — Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up.” It hits Senators Snowe and Rockefeller’s letter to ExxonMobil telling the oil company to stop funding “global warming deniers” like CEI, which almost single-handedly has kept climate change proposals from being enacted.

We particularly like these words from the editorial:

“We respect the folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but we didn’t know until reading the Rockefeller-Snowe letter that they ran U.S. climate policy and led the mainstream media around by the nose, too. Congratulations.

“Let’s compare the balance of forces: on one side, CEI; on the other, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, the U.N. and EU, Hollywood, Al Gore, and every politically correct journalist in the country. We’ll grant that’s a fair intellectual fight. But if the Senators are so afraid that a handful of policy wonks at a single small think-tank are in danger of winning this debate, they must not have much confidence in the merits of their own case.”