The anti-American New York Times takes somewhat less jaundiced look at the ethanol fever, and raises some interesting questions. For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland

One key issue not discussed in the article in the Times is Ethanol's demand for water: "Resources becoming a concern, with new facilities requiring millions of gallons".

I know we're supposed to have World Cup fever despite the rioting fans. For those fans of rugby who feel left out, here's a post at Little Green Footballs that will make you laugh--and cry: The Scrum of the Incredibly Strange Fully Garbed Iranian Female Rugby Trainees

The revelations in the "drive by media" that we are using the law to connect to dots on terrorist activities--that would be called treason if we had the guts to use the term properly today--are instructive to the terrorists on our capabilities if not entirely revealing about the scope of our methods and means. Michelle Malkin posts a nice set of "blabbermouth posters" modernized to illustrate the costs of aiding the enemy. How about a nice big glass of.

Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has an excellent post with even more interesting commentary on the release of the National Academy of Science's report,"Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years": NAS Panel Report
The comments in the post go on for days--more than 500 entries! After reading them, go to the home page for more recent entries on this very worthwhile site.

Steve is dead-bang right. So is the ordinary citizen who recalls that Greenland once produced abundant grapes and wine in the middle of the last millenium. So is the common man who asks, after reading the headlines that scream "Study says Earth's temp at 400-year high" thinks, "Wow, so before the industrial age really kicked in, the world was warmer than it is now. I wonder what caused that? And, what else aren't they telling us?"

One of the commenters linked to another useful site on the CO2 debate.

The NAS panel report can be found here.