Koch funded climate scientist reverses thinking - climate change IS REAL!

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. Never mind that the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of other
climatologists around the world came to such conclusions years ago.
The difference now is the source: Muller is a long-standing, colorful
critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was
heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along
with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G.
Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate
change.

In an opinion piece in Saturday’s New York Times titled “The
Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic,” Muller writes: “Three years
ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my
mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year,
following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I
concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of
the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans
are almost entirely the cause.”

The Berkeley project’s research has shown, Muller says, “that the
average temperature of the Earth’s land has risen by two and a half
degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of
one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it
appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the
human emission of greenhouse gases.”

He calls his stance now “a total turnaround.”

[Updated, 4:17 p.m., July 29: Tonya Mullins, a spokeswoman for the
Koch Foundation, said the support her foundation provided, along with
others, had no bearing on the results of the research. "Our grants are
designed to promote independent research; as such, recipients hold
full control over their findings," Mullins said in an email. "In this
support, we strive to benefit society by promoting discovery and
informing public policy."]

Some leading climate scientists welcomed Muller’s comments, proof,
they argued, that the science is so strong that even those inclined to
reject it cannot once they examine it carefully. Michael E. Mann,
director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State
University, said that Muller’s conversion might help shape the
thinking of the “reasonable middle” of the population “who are
genuinely confused and have been honestly taken in” by attacks on
climate science.


Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,7372823.story

"Uncarollo2" wrote in message
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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. Never mind that the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of other
climatologists around the world came to such conclusions years ago.
The difference now is the source: Muller is a long-standing, colorful
critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was
heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along
with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G.
Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate
change.

In an opinion piece in Saturday’s New York Times titled “The
Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic,” Muller writes: “Three years
ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my
mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year,
following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I
concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of
the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans
are almost entirely the cause.”

The Berkeley project’s research has shown, Muller says, “that the
average temperature of the Earth’s land has risen by two and a half
degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of
one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it
appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the
human emission of greenhouse gases.”

He calls his stance now “a total turnaround.”

[Updated, 4:17 p.m., July 29: Tonya Mullins, a spokeswoman for the
Koch Foundation, said the support her foundation provided, along with
others, had no bearing on the results of the research. "Our grants are
designed to promote independent research; as such, recipients hold
full control over their findings," Mullins said in an email. "In this
support, we strive to benefit society by promoting discovery and
informing public policy."]

Some leading climate scientists welcomed Muller’s comments, proof,
they argued, that the science is so strong that even those inclined to
reject it cannot once they examine it carefully. Michael E. Mann,
director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State
University, said that Muller’s conversion might help shape the
thinking of the “reasonable middle” of the population “who are
genuinely confused and have been honestly taken in” by attacks on
climate science.


Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,7372823.story

chuckle..........

better grin while you can.........

for the end is near ....November marks the beginning of the end

now, if you will excuse me, I need to go burn some plastic bags.

On Jul 30, 6:07*pm, Uncarollo2 wrote:
The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of
greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.



The verdict indeed !,it would be a major miracle to find an individual
capable of matching the massive daily temperature rise and fall in
response with one rotation of the Earth for the same modelers who give
the world a headache with their idea of human control over the
planet's temperatures come from the same cult that models 1465
rotations in 1461 days.

The one and only problem is not the dominance of empirical riff-raff
who simply have no common sense but the lack of astronomers who can
sit down and discuss the utterly stupid attempt to make planetary
cycles fit into the clockwork solar system as an extension of the
calendar system.

The world is paying dearly for this utter nonsense and it is every
nation for itself,those nations who adopt a stable astronomical
narrative will quickly abandon concepts which will drag down their
nation for one thing is certain,it will generate a lot of dullards who
will stumble from one empirical novelty to the next.

Uncarollo2 wrote:
The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of
greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.

1) There is no such thing as "climate science", though it could
be promoted to a 'science' when sunspots and volcanoes become
predictable.

2) Although sunspot "science" as it relates to climate change,
doesn't exist in the minds of the *chicken littles*, you may
have noticed the sun has been very active in the last few years,
IOW's - count the spots - , next calculate they're radiation
o/p as it relates to Earth's climate.
That will get you started, do your homework :-).
Regards
Ken

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:37:57 -0700, "Ken S. Tucker"
wrote:

1) There is no such thing as "climate science"...

Your ignorance has no impact on reality.

On Jul 30, 3:37*pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

That will get you started, do your homework :-).
Regards
Ken

What grade are you in? What reading level?

"Chris L Peterson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:37:57 -0700, "Ken S. Tucker"
wrote:

1) There is no such thing as "climate science"...

Your ignorance has no impact on reality.

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There is no such thing as computer science, it is all engineering and
mathematics.
Your utter stupidity has no impact on reality.

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:32:54 +0100, "Androcles" wrote:

There is no such thing as computer science, it is all engineering and
mathematics.

There's no such thing as astronomical science, because we can't
predict supernovas.

On Monday, July 30, 2012 4:07:56 PM UTC, Uncarollo2 wrote:

The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of
greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.

ha ha are ya now gonna hav 2 sell ya mustang gt and by a prius?


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Swallowing the cum of a healthy male is good for you, since it is a highly
concentrated source of protein, minerals, natural sugars, and other nutrients.

Just as an aside. Has anyone noticed that David Koch supports NOVA? Talk
about irony!!