Google Invests in a Chips-to-Biofuels Venture - NYTimes.com

A Southern California start-up that is developing mobile refineries that turn wood chips and agricultural waste into biofuels has received a $20 million round of financing, Todd Woody reports at the DealBook blog. Google is a major participant, according to the company, CoolPlanetBiofuels.

The Narrow Perspective On Climate Science Being Communicated To Physics Teachers | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Students who are being taught climate science are being indoctrinated into a narrow viewpoint of climate science [thanks to Ben Herman and Phil Krider for alerting us to this article]. The article below published by the American Association of Physics Teachers documents this bias.

Why does Congress have Clean Air Act phobia? | Grist

Letting polluters put their global warming wastes in the air today will harm our children and their children and their children's children. Global warming pollution just doesn't go away fast -- half the carbon pollution we put in the air when our great-grandfathers fought World War I is still in the air today. And 1,000 years from now, 15 percent of the pollution from those years will still be in the air.