Global Warming Skeptic Now Agrees Climate Change Is Real
Wall Street Journal
30 October 2011
"WASHINGTON — 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 the mainstream
scientists 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.
"The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a
skeptic two years ago," Muller said in a telephone interview. "And
now we have confidence that the temperature rise that had
previously been reported had been done without bias." There is no
reason now to be a skeptic about steadily increasing temperatures,
Muller wrote recently in The
Wall Street Journal's editorial pages. Muller said it
makes sense to reduce the carbon dioxide created by fossil fuels.
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 tea party. The Koch brothers, Charles and
David, run a large privately held company involved in oil and
other industries, producing sizable greenhouse gas emissions."
Read more at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/richard-muller-global-warming_n_1066029.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594872796327348.html