Over the weekend, University of California-Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, a once avid “climate skeptic,” came out in a New York Times op-ed saying that he was “converted.” But the climate science community that supports warming as man-made, instead of welcoming Muller with open arms, is criticizing him to an extent.
Muller admits himself that he had in the past been critical of some climate change studies, but instead of complaining about it, he and his daughter, Elizabeth, founded the Berekley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. TheBlaze reported the first inklings that Muller was changing his position on the state of global warming last fall when draft studies of his analysis from this project was released. He now writes in the Times he believes “humans are almost entirely the cause”:
"California-Berkeley physics professor".
ReplyDeleteWorking there he never was a skeptic. That voids anything else he has to say.
"California-Berkeley physics professor".
ReplyDeleteWorking there he never was a skeptic. That voids anything else he has to say.
July 31, 2012 2:13 PM
What?!