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See the lengthy article (15 typed single-spaced pages) at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer  Here are a few excepts: With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars.   The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, [...]

November 2007.  From http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2007/11/09-01.html Top climate scientists have cautiously endorsed the need to study schemes to reverse global warming that involve directly tinkering with Earth’s climate. Their position on geoengineering, which will likely be controversial, was staked out at an invitation-only meeting that ended here today. It’s based on a growing concern about the rapid [...]

from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/business/energy-environment/13bprisk.html … Mr. Browne’s fall from grace really began on March 23, 2005, when 15 people died and more than 170 were injured in America’s worst industrial accident in a generation: a huge fire and explosion at Texas City. … the Texas City plant was America’s second-largest refinery, turning 460,000 barrels of crude oil a [...]

from http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/tomato-prices-to-double-after-mass-poisoning-sabotage/story-e6frfmd9-1225889038401 … TOMATO prices could double or triple in coming months after a millions of seedlings were poisoned in an act of mass sabotage in north Queensland. About seven million plants, including about four million tomato seedlings, have been lost after they were poisoned with a herbicide at a Bowen nursery in June. … [...]

from http://gas2.org/2010/06/25/ford-mustang-v6-gets-48-5-mpg-around-bristol-race-track/ … Ford has countered with a 305 horsepower V6 that gets an EPA rated 31 mpg. To demonstrate the excellent gas mileage of this new Mustang, they went around the half-mile Bristol Motor Speedway 1,457 times…. on a single tank of gas. This means the Mustang got 48.5 miles per gallon…

From http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/why-climate-stumps-even-the-brightest-scientists/ … The single biggest uncertainty identified by the 14 experts — and it was a unanimous judgment — was the role of clouds in the earth’s future climate. This may come as no surprise to anyone who has been following climate science closely; the cloud problem has been vexing researchers for decades. The [...]

from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/groundhog-day-for-oil/?hp Wish it weren’t so, but I fear my lasting memory of many trips to Prince William Sound will be of hunched-over workers with toothbrushes, trying to scrub black tar from shivering birds and sea-worn rocks in the Alaska spring of 1989.All the images were staggering: The birds looked lost and stunned, their coats [...]

Earth day is in 2 days. From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/20tier.html?hpw … You can never not do just one thing. Environmentalists of the 1970s liked to justify their resistance to new technologies by warning that you could never do just one thing. It was a nice mantra and also quite accurate. New technologies do indeed come with unexpected [...]

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/green-supercars-fight-to-be-fastest/ http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4078/Italdesign-Namir-Concept.html 187 mph, zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds & 90 mpg. Fuel efficient and powerful.  Enough said.

From The New York Times: The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists familiar with the work, to be published Friday in the journal Science, said it [...]