Art Pope’s millions fund climate change denial | Grist

For over a decade, the Koch brothers have spent a considerable chunk of their $21.5 billion fortunes financing doubt about climate science.

C3: NASA Global Warming Research: Last Decade of Data Shows Vast Areas of World Not Warming

Although the MSM does not publicize actual empirical climate evidence any longer, it is known by researchers that large areas of the world have been cooling over the last 10+ years, some considerably.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » I’m Happy To Help, Judith Curry: Overconfidence In IPCC’s Detection And Attribution

The true test of climate models, hence of the CO2 hypothesis, will be in how well they predict data not yet seen. If they do that more skillfully than other, parsimonious climate models—like “persistence, or something like it”—then we would have non-circular evidence that the CO2 hypothesis is true. We do not (yet?) have this evidence.

Warning Signs: Time to End the Ethanol Rip-Off

Psst! Want to avoid $25-to-$30 billion in new deficit spending over the next five years? You do? Okay, then email, fax or call your congressman and tell him you want to let the 45 cents-per-gallon Volumetric Ethanol Tax Credit (VEETC) expire on December 31, 2010

Travel industry the “biggest enemy” the NRDC has « Heliogenic Climate Change

“I think the board was a little stunned,” Dow said. “When we asked him to speak his mind about the industry, he said, ‘You’re the biggest enemy I have.’ They (environmentalists) aren’t as concerned about how travel works for the economy [as] they are about reducing carbon emissions.””