Outspoken Climate Skeptic Changes His Mind in Face of His Own Data (US News)
Richard Muller, a physicist at UC Berkley has long been a skeptic of climate data used to assert warming worldwide. He long contended that data may be too tarnished. So last year, Richard Muller and a team of colleagues, including Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Prize winner in physics, started the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study to review and assess the accuracy of existing land temperature data. The team looked at temperature data from 15 previous studies—amounting to some 1.6 billion combined records dating back to 1800—on the subject.
Muller says that concerns raised by global warming skeptics were specifically addressed, including the urban heat island effect, poor station quality, and data selection bias. The group’s results aligned closely with previous studies.
“Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously,” Muller said in a statement. “This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change skeptics did not seriously affect their conclusions.” (Read more at: US News)
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• Muller: The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism: There were good reasons for doubt (Wall Street Journal)
• Independent Study Confirms That Global Warming Exists (Forbes)
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