It’s spring, and that means state government is talking about smog and the American Lung Association is issuing its annual report, complete with dire conclusions about pollution. On Tuesday, WUNC-FM’s “The State of Things” discussed the quality of North Carolina’s air, and among the guests was JLF adjunct scholar Joel Schwartz. Last August, Schwartz authored the JLF report, Clearing the Air in North Carolina: Pollution Myths and Realities. The next day, thanks to Roy Cordato, JLF’s new Spotlight report on global warming policy gained attention – and ruffled some left-leaning feathers – at a meeting held by NC DENR about CO2 reduction policy. Cordato distributed Global Warming Policy: NC Should Do Nothing, and when the chairperson announced the session would be recorded and asked if there were objections, a representative from NCWARN stood up, said he had no objections to taping, but that he did object to the distribution of JLF’s report. That attention provided even more exposure than we had hoped for. But JLF’s high profile at the meeting didn’t end there. Following comments by University of Virginia climatologist and global warming skeptic Pat Michaels, who had been a guest at JLF earlier in the day for a “Carolina Journal Radio” interview, a reporter asked Michaels if he was a science advisor to JLF. Known for his humor and love of tweaking reporters, he answered: “I don’t know, am I? I guess I am.” Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is the author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.