A recent study funded in part by the Charles G. Koch Foundation supports existing scientific evidence that global climate change is happening and is primarily caused by humans. The study's lead author, Dr. Richard Muller, was a well-known climate skeptic who was "converted" by his own examination of global temperature data.
Charles Koch and his brother David have funneled over $61 million to groups that deny the science and seriousness of climate change. Because of this massive effort and the contradictory investment in Dr. Muller's project, which is currently being submitted for formal peer-review, Greenpeace believes it is crucial for Charles Koch to set the record straight. Does Mr. Koch stand with the conclusions of the science he helped fund, or will he continue to finance unscientific political advocacy against global warming solutions?
I make my case to Charles Koch in the following letter:
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Listen to Peter Muller's interviews. He exclaims over how wonderful his findings are, even though he pretty much just replicated what has been replicated numerous times in the last 2 decades. He then says (with a sneer) that polar bears are not dying because of global warming, the drought is not caused by global warming...no current weather events can be linked to global warming. Note that he has absolutely no proof for these statements--it is purely conjecture.
Finally, Muller makes his take-home message, which is that we MUST use natural gas as a "bridge" fuel.
In fact, natural gas emissions are still way too high for us to avoid disastrous levels of climate change.
See recent publication by Nathan Myhrvold and Ken Caldeira, reviewed here:
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/02/clean-energy-is-needed-now-climate-scientists-climate-economists-say/