That's for sure.
Also:
As far as I know, no government or industry funds are involved -- at least at this stage. According to the Project's website www.berkeleyearth.org, support comes mostly from a group of charitable foundations.
"Charitable foundations" are sometimes known to push political causes and expect, for their money, the same kind of results government bureaucrats expect when they approve "grants". For example, I believe George Soros controls a number of "charitable foundations". Plenty of communist and left-leaning Democrat millionaires do.
The full makeup of the scientists involved in this new project must include as many skeptics as alarmists, or the results will again lack credibility.
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I hope B.E.S.T. avoids heat islands like the plague.
I am excited by this Berkeley earth temperature project, and have great hopes for it. It will be great to have an easily accessible data base accessible with raw data so we can get out our R engines and crunch the data for ourselves without having to worry about how it has been “homogenized” by the climate gate controllers.