Crisp: Behind 'willful disbelief' - Framingham, MA

The question that the pollsters asked was: "Is there solid evidence the earth is warming?" One might imagine that 100 percent of reasonably informed respondents would have heard of melting polar ice caps, receding glaciers, and rising sea levels - which, at the very least, are more than mere hoaxes - even if they believed that global warming isn't caused by human activity.

The fact that global warming counter-evidence crops up occasionally doesn't change the correct answer to the question: the solid evidence for global warming is abundant.
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John M. Crisp teaches in the English Department at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. E-mail him at jcrisp@delmar.edu.

[Buffett betting on coal?]: Berkshire buying Burlington Northern railroad - washingtonpost.com

Berkshire also owns MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which controls power companies in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. The railroad could be a strategic acquisition because its tracks run right through both regions, a major coal supply route for power plants.

The chairman of MidAmerican Energy has come out vocally against climate change legislation which targets coal-fired power plants.

Copenhageners spell out key number | News | The COP15 Post

Organised by the movement and website 350.org, activists across the globe were inventive in displaying the number 350 – the number of CO2 molecules per million that climate scientists [besides Jim Hansen, what are their names?] estimate as the upper limit to prevent catastrophic runaway climate change.