Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. The Koch brothers, the billionaire oil executives who have financed the Tea Party movement, are now funding a climate change study at UC Berkeley that is led by a global warming skeptic, the LA Times reports. Some scientists fear that the Berkeley study is designed to undercut climate-change science and the Obama administration’s plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The study is being headed up by Richard Muller, a Cal physicist who is a longtime critic of the international scientific consensus on climate change. And the largest backer of the study is the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which donated $150,000 to it. Charles and David Koch are the nation’s most prominent financiers of efforts to block the regulation of greenhouse gases.
