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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST) is poised to release its findings next week on the cause of recent global warming. A forthcoming NY Times op-ed by Richard Muller, BESTs Founder and Scientific Director, has been excerpted on a conservative website with the headline, New Global Temperature Data Reanalysis Confirms Warming, Blames CO2.
I have spoken with scientists and journalists familiar with BESTs findings, and the excerpt appears genuine. Here is the money graf:
CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified scientific issues that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Now, after organizing an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, Ive concluded that global warming is real, that the prior estimates of the rate were correct, and that cause is human.
Yes, yes, I know, the finding itself is dog bites man. What makes this man bites dog is that Muller has been a skeptic of climate science, and the single biggest funder of this study is the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000). The Kochs are the leading funder of climate disinformation in the world!
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randome
(34,845 posts)Initech
(100,199 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)The minute any tipping point is reached, the plans for Geo-Engineering will be revealed and all opposed will be labeled as "Weak Minded Liberals Who Hate Human Progress."
Yep, we'll be power hungry ones who want to take their NASCAR away and they will be the adults with the monopoly on Science.
Same as it ever was.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002513839
Sad thing is IF we hit a tipping point (and we very well may have) Geo-Engineering is the Hail-Mary pass.
See:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44079
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Brooklyn Dame
(169 posts)AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)and food prices are beginning to rise during a period of extreme unemployment, doubters may begin to think twice.
randome
(34,845 posts)70% of people believe climate change is real now. That's the 'tipping point' that matters.
UTUSN
(70,873 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)THE DROUGHTS? TEN TIMES AS MANY RECORD HIGHS AS RECORD LOWS?
Nah..you just honestly reevaluated the data. That's the ticket!
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)newspaper article about a guy, who had started out as a statistician I believe, out of Texas, who was consulting with the Fortune 500 on the matter of climate. I think they've always pretty much known what is going on and were just trying to stay in control of our reaction to it.
msongs
(67,580 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)A freakin genius, this one.
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Muller goes on to say how his analysis isnt like that old IPCC analysis, its better, because its got the secret ingredient doctors recommend.
Or something.
Meanwhile, nothing in there about apologizing to the scientists he slurred and slandered in order to build up the visibility of his project. Thanks Richard. We now know what we knew 25 years ago.
http://climatecrocks.com/2012/07/28/cats-out-of-the-bag-best-team-reconfirms-human-caused-warming-duh/
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