Newt and Ethanol - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Looks like Gingrich’s firm was paid to lobby for the ethanol industry. GlobalWarming.org has the details.

Doubtless, though, the former Speaker will be able to explain why his claim to the contrary in this letter to the WSJ is still accurate.

Scientific American’s interview with Dr. Richard Muller | Watts Up With That?

I applaud SciAm for not censoring what many consider to be an inconvenient truth about the bad science of that iconic graph.

Cold shoulder for climate change - POLITICO.com Print View

National Research Council members got a collective shrug earlier this month when they went to Capitol Hill to share their work — a congressionally mandated, 18-month review of the nuts and bolts of global warming science and ideas for what U.S. policymakers could do about it.

Only a small group of House and Senate aides showed up for private briefings on the study. And while a couple of staffers asked parochial questions about how climate change affects their districts and states, the authors also got the second degree on whether there is even a problem.

“They said, ‘There are those who believe it’s a bit of hogwash. And not only hogwash, but a fraud,’” said Albert Carnesale, chancellor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and chairman of the NRC panel.