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The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
- anthonyb 14y agoI'm amazed that he even considers himself a skeptic. Everything in here has already been said by other scientists already, eg. his analysis apparently consists essentially of fitting temperature to CO2 levels: "Our result is based simply on the close agreement between the shape of the observed temperature rise and the known greenhouse gas increase. " About the only reason that this is newsworthy is that he's a notable climate skeptic, and he's funding comes from Koch, a coal based lobbying organisation.
- nl 14y agoAs expected, "skeptics" are now denying that Muller ever was a skeptic[1]. It is unfortunate - everyone should be skeptical, but when people start pulling out new, highly speculative theories (eg, the latest one - which I saw on HN - is that cosmic rays are responsible for climate change) to attempt to explain climate change it's hard not to think they are just denying for the sake of denying. [1] http://www.climatedepot.com/a/13375/Befuddled-Warmist-Richard-Muller-Declares-Skeptics-Should-Convert-to-Believers-Because-His-Study-Shows-the-Earth-Has-Warmed-Since-the-1950s--Climate-Depot-Responds http://www.climatedepot.com/a/13375/Befuddled-Warmist-Richar...
- Vivtek 14y agoThe exciting thing about this for me is that they published their analysis code as well. [http://berkeleyearth.org/our-code/ http://berkeleyearth.org/our-code/] Now that's science!