The latest TIME includes this lament about the absence of data to confirm or refute whether businesses actually secure “carbon neutrality”:

The lack of hard metrics for measuring these things makes it awfully easy for companies to gin up their equations and then brag about their green cred.

Of course, author Bryan Walsh does not note the striking similarity between that statement and the entire modus operandi of the environmental movement.

Those following North Carolina’s global warming debate should be interested in a 9 a.m. news conference at the Legislative Building. Sen. Robert Pittenger, R-Mecklenburg, and our own Roy Cordato will discuss a recent peer review of the group that likely used “seriously flawed” methods to draft global warming policy proposals for North Carolina.