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The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic (nytimes.com)
16 points by dandelany on July 29, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I'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.


As 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-Richar...


The exciting thing about this for me is that they published their analysis code as well. [http://berkeleyearth.org/our-code/]

Now that's science!




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