Post by theoncomingstorm on Jun 23, 2017 8:43:58 GMT
Dr. Richard Muller is a professor of physics at UC Berkeley. In 2003 he was one of the most notable of the "climate change skeptic" crowd. This led to him being contracted by the superbillionaires, Charles and David Koch, to lead a team of scientists to disprove manmade climate change. That's right, it was the skeptics who were attempting gangster science. So, after Muller and his team conducted their own investigation into the data on climate change, he said this:
"Call me a converted skeptic. 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." (New York Times, July 30, 2012)
This was only a short time after he wrote an op-ed printed in the Wall Street Journal explaining the work of The Berkeley Project, a non-profit which was set up by Muller and his daughter, Elizabeth, for the express purpose of addressing the concerns and questions of climate change skeptics. Muller stated:
"When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections."
The scientific method and peer review - they work as intended no matter how many uneducated, drunk Ginger Avengers dream up ridiculous conspiracy theories involving "Nazi-thought control".
I'm sure someone will decide, without evidence, that all this really means is that Muller was bought off. Somebody outbid the Koch brothers.
"Call me a converted skeptic. 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." (New York Times, July 30, 2012)
This was only a short time after he wrote an op-ed printed in the Wall Street Journal explaining the work of The Berkeley Project, a non-profit which was set up by Muller and his daughter, Elizabeth, for the express purpose of addressing the concerns and questions of climate change skeptics. Muller stated:
"When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections."
The scientific method and peer review - they work as intended no matter how many uneducated, drunk Ginger Avengers dream up ridiculous conspiracy theories involving "Nazi-thought control".
I'm sure someone will decide, without evidence, that all this really means is that Muller was bought off. Somebody outbid the Koch brothers.