Oh the places you'll go...

Maybe it's appropriate around graduation time, that classic time of endings and new beginnings, to show off some of the breadth and depth that the world has to offer. For instance, did you know that you can make a great living as part of an anti-evironmentalist think tank?

To show an example, here's the biography of one Myron Ebell

Myron Ebell is director of energy and global warming policy at CEI. He also 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. Prior to coming to CEI, Mr. Ebell was policy director at Frontiers of Freedom, a public-policy advocacy organization founded by former US Senator Malcolm Wallop.

While at Frontiers of Freedom, he worked on property rights, the Endangered Species Act, federal-lands policies, and global warming. He previously served as senior legislative assistant to Rep. John Shadegg, where he helped develop landmark legislation that would reform the Endangered Species Act, and before that as Washington representative of the American Land Rights Association and as assistant to the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union.

Mr. Ebell has appeared as a guest on numerous television shows, including the NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour, BBC's Newsnight, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, MSNBC's Hardball, ITN, Voice of America, Televisa, Sky TV, Fox News's Special Report with Brit Hume, O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity and Colmes, and on national television networks in Australia, Canada, France, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, and Germany. He has appeared frequently on a variety of BBC radio news shows and on hundreds of radio talk shows, including G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Jim Bohannon, Blanquita Cullum, Janet Parshall, Neal Boortz, Thom Hartmann, Jane Chastain, Alan Colmes, Alan Nathan, and National Public Radio's Diane Rehm, Talk of the Nation, To the Point, Living on Earth, and All Things Considered. In 2004, he was featured in a BBC Radio documentary, The Climate Wars, and in 2005 participated in a BBC World Television debate on the Kyoto Protocol. Mr. Ebell's writings have appeared in a variety of publications, including USA Today, Washington Post, Human Events, London’s Guardian, Star Ledger, Philadelphia Inquirer, Manchester Union Leader, Anchorage Daily News, and Environmental Law Forum.

(I love that: "worked on".)

So maybe you're a recent graduate and you're curious about the credentials it takes to follow in Myron's prestigious footsteps. All you really need is a degree in Political Theory, and if you work on the presidential campaign of a prominent Republican, you'll be qualified to sign on as a "Public Policy Expert". That's kinda like a scientist, except you don't have to bother with math or science or facts.

The best part of working in the anti-environmentalism industry is there are some big corporate dollars there. With that kind of backing you can become a world famous luminary without any credentials or even merit! And with the current bevy of environmental crisess to spin away, it's a growth industry.

(Motivated by the really depressing Competitive Enterprise Institute ad for CO2. With link credit to Kevin Drum.)