When I read of the plan to put a wind farm in the former landfill at Fresh Kills, I had mixed emotions. On the one hand, I’ve always found the huge windmills in Atlantic City beautifully mesmerizing, and on an aesthetic level a wind farm is certainly an improvement on a dump. On the other hand, windmills, like solar panels, are just another useless “clean energy” source.

Clean energy joins “organic,” “going green,” “global warming,” and “free-range chicken” on the roster of politically correct terms that trigger in me an overwhelming desire to roll my eyes and sigh. I can’t begin to count the short-lived bandwagons the gullible have jumped on in the past few decades — Hollywood celebrities quickest among them. The good news is the growing number of intelligent and savvy debunkers who are adept at setting things straight with the truth.

Earlier this year, I met a cofounder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, and found him to be the kind of environmentalist the world needs. In response to a new documentary co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, “The 11th Hour,” Mr. Moore wrote an essay for the Vancouver Sun under the headline “An Inconvenient Fact.” In it, Mr. Moore trashes the anti-forestry scare tactics of the film promoted by Mr. DiCaprio and the founder of Forest Ethics, Tzeporah Berman, and writes: “As a lifelong environmentalist, I say trees can solve many of the world’s sustainability challenges. Forestry is the most sustainable of all the primary industries that provide us with energy and materials. Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, DiCaprio and Berman ought to promote the growth of more trees and the use of more wood. Trees are the most powerful concentrators of carbon on Earth. Through photosynthesis, they absorb CO2 , from the atmosphere and store it in their wood, which is nearly 50% carbon by weight.”

Of course, Mr. Moore is a bona fide scientist — the only one associated with Greenpeace during his years there. Mr. DiCaprio is hardly an expert on climatology. Likewise, Vice President Gore is a politician who earned a D in natural science at Harvard, according to the Washington Post, yet he is regarded as the arbiter on global warming. Who gets the most attention from the public?

The fog of deceit, however, may be lifted by the efforts of Thor Halvorssen, founder of the Moving Picture Institute, the TriBe-Ca-based film company that is producing documentaries debunking junk science and liberal bias in the halls of learning. Mr. Halvorssen was recently described in a New York Times article as a “maverick mogul, proudly politically incorrect.”

Perhaps it’s easy for the mainstream press to label him that way, but I found him to be more a seeker of truth. Mr. Halvorssen was born in Venezuela and is of Norwegian heritage on his paternal side. His mother is distantly related to Simon Bolivar, and I was delighted to hear him pronounce my first name correctly. (It has four syllables.)

One MPI documentary, “Mine Your Own Business,” captures how radical environmentalists were suppressing progress in some of the world’s poorest areas. An Irish journalist, Phelim McAleer, filmed the piece with honesty and integrity, allowing viewers to form their own opinion.

More intriguing, and a must-see for parents sending children off to college, is the brilliant and frightening “Indoctrinate U,” Evan Coyne Maloney’s eye-opening documentary about the repressive climate of academia in American colleges. I had first-hand knowledge in it from my daughter’s experience at the College of Staten Island, where one of her instructors often strayed from the subject of American history to bash President Bush and demand students read nothing but the Times.

Mr. Halvorssen informed me about some upcoming MPI projects that left me full of hope. This is not about being politically incorrect but about love for a free society. I urge those of like mind to visit the MPI Web site, www.thempi.org, to learn about the grant program for filmmakers and its mission, or simply to donate. Mr. Halvorssen is a prime example of how the foreign-born often readily recognize the gift of freedom that so many of us take for granted. When I asked him if he had a motto to live by, he answered: “I am in love with the American experiment and how it can liberate individuals who wish to take advantage of their talents so that they can create and produce. Most other places in the world are not like that. … America is simply magnificent.”

Amen.