Climate skeptics were hoping this study would debunk data proving the existence of the climate crisis -- instead it reaffirmed the science:
Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims. Remember, this was not long after the Climategate affair had erupted, at a time when skeptics were griping that climatologists had based their claims on faulty temperature data.
Muller's stated aims were simple. He and his team would scour and re-analyze the climate data, putting all their calculations and methods online. Skeptics cheered the effort. "I'm prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong," wrote Anthony Watts, a blogger who has criticized the quality of the weather stations in the United States that provide temperature data. The Charles G. Koch Foundation even gave Muller's project $150,000 -- and the Koch brothers, recall, are hardly fans of mainstream climate science.So what are the end results? Muller's team appears to have confirmed the basic tenets of climate science.
With the evidence reconfirmed (again), I would hope that skeptics would rethink their position and join me in pushing our government, and governments around the world, to take steps to solve the climate crisis.
Source: Washington Post's WonkBlog
Cross-posted from Al's Journal.
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Little detail I notice you failed to mention ......Big surprise. LOL
Not merely "reasonable" but moreover reliable and robust. Dr. Muller put it this way, with respect to previous studies that have examined the instrumental global temperature trend:
"[T]hese studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions.”
Nice spin attempt though.
heian120: "[Muller] specifically did not say he agrees that any temperature rise was caused by man made CO2."
Dr. Muller's studies did not address that question, which Dr. Muller specifically said, and you heian120 failed to mention.
heian120: "Little detail I notice you failed to mention ......Big surprise. LOL"
Science denier irony never ends.
Uh oh: It was the BEST of times, it was the worst of times
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/29/uh-oh-it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/#more-50286
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* http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
Only a few years ago many scientists and commentators would not acknowledge the global temperature standstill of the past decade. Now that it has become unarguable there has emerged more explanations for it than can possibly be the case.
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We make a big deal of the temperature going up. In my view we should make a bigger scientific deal about temperature flatlining for a decade or more in the face of rising CO2 levels. If further scrutiny of the Best dataset confirms this finding we will have new questions about the nature and balance of oceanic and land warming.
The fact that Best confirms the global temperature hiatus and shows that it is apparent in land only data is significant, and in my view its major scientific finding, so far. David Whitehouse
"We make a big deal of the temperature going up. In my view we should make a bigger scientific deal about temperature flatlining for a decade or more in the face of rising CO2 levels. If further scrutiny of the Best dataset confirms this finding we will have new questions about the nature and balance of oceanic and land warming."
came from your brain. It was intelligent. Too bad you cut and pasted it.
Yes, change is what makes scientists salivate R2. It means we have to identify new mechanisms. or the realtive balance between known ones. And that beats following the same old trends. Plus it helps pin down causitive factors and their relative magnitude. It is the "stuff"of science.
Sunday, 30 October 2011 06:50 David Rose, Mail on Sunday .It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
lay it out for us......LOL
Yeah man, what has science ever been right about - obviously science cannot be trusted or ever taken seriously.
/sarcasm
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"How should scientists respond to the allegation that our ‘faith’ in logic and scientific truth is just that — faith — not ‘privileged’ (favourite in-word) over alternative truths? A minimal response is that science gets results. As I put it in River Out of Eden,
'Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there — the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field — is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sums right.'
"Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when."
- Dr. Richard Dawkins
Translation:
"I would hope that I could profit immensely by pushing our government to take steps to NOT solve the climate crisis, but merely to PRETEND to solve it. A carbon tax might solve it, but no money would go to me. Therefore I have no interest. Cap and trade, on the other hand, would perpetuate the crisis AND enrich me, so I wholeheartedly support that plan."
Stop yammering and just do it.
and that is where the science is far from settled.......