Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists. Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) warmer than in the 1950s. Those numbers from Muller, who works at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, match those by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

He said he went even further back, studying readings from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His ultimate finding of a warming world, to be presented at a conference Monday, is no different from what mainstream climate scientists have been saying for decades. What's different, and why everyone from opinion columnists to cable TV 's satirical"The Daily Show" is paying attention is who is behind the study. One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation, whose founder is a major funder of skeptic groups and the conservative tea party movement. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, run a large privately held company involved in oil and other industries, producing sizable greenhouse gas emissions.

news.yahoo.com...

That totally misses the point.

The climate always changes. It goes in cycles. It has already been shown that temperature rises precede rises in carbon levels. Meaning man made global warming is an absolute scam designed to implement further taxation and more centralization of power.

Originally posted by Namaste1001
That totally misses the point.

The climate always changes. It goes in cycles. It has already been shown that temperature rises precede rises in carbon levels. Meaning man made global warming is an absolute scam designed to implement further taxation and more centralization of power.

And of course, when they report things like this, they do not, as you just did, qualify it with anthropogenic "global warming" only with "global warming". Anthropogenic global warming is the issue, not global warming. Global warming is the typical period in between ice ages, of which we are in now. Why is the anthropogenic always left out? Because the propagandist believe that a.) you are too stupid to know what anthropogenic means, and b.) it serves their purpose to pretend that skeptics are denying a reality as opposed to questioning, (validly so), their science.

Already posted

Originally posted by webpirate
Already posted

Different Forum

Second

Elf

I bet this scientists life and his family's lives were threatened!! Agree or disagree?