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Posted on 10/25/2011 1:30:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
UC Berkeley physicist, and longtime climate skeptic, Richard Muller has finally gone on the offensive, publicly admitting he was wrong to doubt global-warming data in a piece for The Wall Street Journal.
The outspoken professor, who gained notoriety in the climate-denial community for his rants against Al Gore and fueling the fire on Climategate, decided to take matters into his own hands earlier this year by creating an independent study to assess specific objections raised by climate skeptics.
Muller and a team of researchers working under the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature Project, analyzed more than 1.6 billion data points collected from more than 39,000 temperature stations around the world to find that their results were "close to those published by prior groups," including estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The evidence proved convincing, even to a habitual climate disbeliever.
"Global warming is real. Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate," Muller concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Figures.
Media to proclaim Prof. Richard Muller a racist homphobe in 4...3...2....
Media to proclaim Prof. Richard Muller a racist homophobe in 4...3...2....
Y’beat me to it ... that was my thought also.
I’m not very knowledgeable on this subject but it seems to me that the fact that there is some marginal overall warming is not the real issue. Instead, the real issue is that because of that warming the environmentalists believe that a) It is all humanitiy’s fault (despite the fact that cycles of cooling and warming occurred long before humans inhabited the planet; b) the only solution to the problem is to destroy capitalism; and c) the only exceptions to the destroy capitalism stuff are Al Gore’s investments. Those are fine.
I have always liked him, and have “sat in” on several of his lectures, via podcast. I did not know he was an admitted skeptic, but it was pretty clear to me, that he was. I respect his opinion on this and will consider what he says carefully, he is not a knee-jerk AGW proponent.
Yes. The report is hogwash. How much warming is due to humans is unknown.
The globe warms, the globe cools. It’s Mom Nature doing what she does.
It’s up to us to deal with it.
He undermines his own arguments. He says that of the temperature stations 1/3 showed cooling, 2/3rds showed warming. But by up to 2 degrees Celsius. Even the kookiest AGW activist doesn’t claim that! It’s ALL bull$hit, especially if you’re going to make policy on wildly inconsistent data.
So now he’s a global warming denier denier?
“How much of the warming is due to humans and what will be the likely effects? We made no independent assessment of that.”
Nothing new to see after all.
Steve
He must have learned he had zero chance of getting research grant$$.
Methinks he found a horse’s head in his bed.
A Berkley Professor admitting anything after a “talking to” is like a Subcommittee of the Democrat Party investigating themselves. The outcome is concrete BS. We might as well have Attorney General Office investigate Fast and Furious/Gunwalker. OH, that’s right, they are!
The planet has been warming since the last ice age 13,000 years ago... Otherwise much of north America and Europe would still be covered with a mile or two of ice...
That’s not the issue.
The issue is, is recent warming caused by man or not. All the signature markers due to CO2 caused heating have failed to materialize.
The communists have ridden the “global warming” hoax horse for some great victories in recent history.
Look at all the policies they’ve justified under the assumption of global warming.
They aren’t about to give it up easily.
That the Earth climate has been warming for the last few decades is not in dispute (climate has stopped warming for the last few years). The dispute is the cause of the warming, AGW people claim CO2 is the sole reason, others (myself included) think natural cycles are mostly responsible with a minor assist due to increasing amounts of atmospheric CO2.
So the Earth is warming, what’s so bad about that? So we’ll have more arable land for farming. The planet is not fragile.
I wonder what changed his mind...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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