While I work up the energy to rebut Robert Scheer, take a look at this little gem from sophismata, destroying one of the environmental movement's greatest arguments in favor of ratifying the fatally flawed Kyoto Treaty.
While you are there, check out this post (it's the next post above the one I've referenced above) for a look of how the New York Times played games with numbers to create a misleading chart.
(29 April 2002CORRECTION: Sophismata erred on his numbers. Here is his post with the correct figures, and citations.)