(Koch-funded) Berkeley scientists' climate data review puts them at center of national debate

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http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-berkeley-climate-20110331,0,5903912.story

Berkeley scientists' climate data review puts them at center of national debate
The head of the study, a longtime critic of the global warming consensus, will testify before a House panel. Leading climate scientists worry that the project, funded in part by an oil billionaire's foundation, has an agenda.
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times
March 31, 2011


An effort by a handful of UC Berkeley scientists to reexamine temperature data underlying global warming research has landed in the center of a national political debate over government regulation.

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study is led by physicist Richard Muller, a longtime critic of the scientific consensus on climate change, who plans to testify on the effort Thursday before the House Science Committee in the latest of several congressional inquiries on climate science since the GOP majority was seated.

The Berkeley project's biggest private backer, with $150,000, is the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Oil billionaires Charles and David Koch are the nation's most prominent funders of efforts to prevent curbs on fossil-fuel burning, the biggest contributor to planet-warming greenhouse gases.

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"I am highly skeptical of the hype and claims," said Kevin Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a university consortium. "The team has some good people but not the expertise required in certain areas, and purely statistical approaches are naive. I suspect they have an agenda."

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[jwirr]

1. Good science can be replicated so let them do their study and then

examine it using the scientific method.

By they way isn't it interesting what they call charitable giving? A science project that favors their interests.