Posted on 07/30/2012 4:50:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON – The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.
This, according to Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley, MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project.....
....Benjamin D. Santer, a climate researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a lead author of the 1995 U.N. climate report, said he welcomed the involvement of another research group into “detection and attribution” of climate change and its causes. But he also said he found it troubling that Muller claimed such definitive results without his work undergoing peer-review.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
From UC Berkeley
Nuff said.
In 1.4 billion years, the stellar luminosity of Sol will have increased to the point that no liquid water will remain on Earth. Earth will be a dead rock, apart from possibly xerophile bacteria below the surface.
Somebody’s bank account is getting low. Hey Doc, how about doing your own research for a change? Call Burt Rutan, he is retired now and can give you a few quick insights.
I was just going to say “Berekely”. LOL
"October 7, 2008, Grist interview of Richard A. Muller:
(Q: ) Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?
(A:) Oh yes. [Laughs.] In fact, back in the early ’80s, I resigned from the Sierra Club over the issue of global warming. At that time, they were opposing nuclear power. What I wrote them in my letter of resignation was that, if you oppose nuclear power, the U.S. will become much more heavily dependent on fossil fuels, and that this is a pollutant to the atmosphere that is very likely to lead to global warming."
Among other relatively recent pronouncement showing less than a skeptical belief.
A life time Berzker from Bezerkley.
Muller in 2008: “The bottom line is that there is a consensus — the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] — and the president needs to know what the IPCC says. Second, they say that most of the warming of the last 50 years is probably due to humans. You need to know that this is from carbon dioxide, and you need to understand which technologies can reduce this and which can’t.”
Muller went from believing in AGW to believing AGW is an eminent threat. That's no conversion.
His opinion changed or facts to back it up have been published?
LOL, that's the idiot who wants to punch out skeptics.
BULLSH!T! There are no normal humans at bezerkley... only America hating communist fags of the left.
LLS
Wasn't this the main problem with the original mankind-is-killing-the-planet theory?
There’s a reason why he “reversed course”...
Follow the money?
So here’s a couple of questions...
If true that he was funded by the Koch brothers, and if also true that he never was much of a climate change skeptic, then WHY was he funded by the Koch brothers??
Yep. I was going to say . . . somebody’s funding source has recently changed—or tenure threatened.
He make a good pitch?
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"Donors First Phase
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund ($20,000)
William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation ($100,000)
Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (created by Bill Gates) ($100,000)
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000)
The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation ($50,000)
We also received funding from a number of private individuals, totaling $14,500 as of June 2011.
Second Phase
William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation ($100,000)
The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation ($50,000)
Anonymous Foundation ($250,000)????
All donations were provided as unrestricted educational grants, which means the donor organizations have no say over how we conduct the research or what we publish. All of our work and results are presented with full transparency."
A con artist.
Too bad the Kochs went for it.
So an ***anonymous*** foundation gave $250,000??
Just...WOW!
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