that's koch as in charles and david koch, the conservative billionaires who got that way by inheriting their father's oil company fortune. they're oil zillionaires. while their funding of the project did not come with strings attached, frankly, the koch brothers fund a lot of what happened on the global warming is a hoax side of things. but richard muller's latest study was an independent scientific endeavor and its results are the opposite of in accord with its funder's political positions. when professor muller was invited to testify before a house subcommittee on the environment last year, he reported there that contrary to his previous beliefs, to his expectations, his preliminary analysis showed that indeed there is a global warming trend. then six months after delivering that information to congress, professor muller declared publicly that global warming is real, and he said he was no longer skeptical of the data about which he had once voiced doubts.