monthly_denialists.jpg A VICTORY has been declared in the field of climate change but the lap of honour is not being run by research scientists or renewable energy bosses, or by coral reefs, drought-stricken farmers or the citizens of low-lying countries. Rather, if you accept as valid this declaration of victory from
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DeSmogBlog: Conversion Fever! Why The Media Adores Former Climate Skeptics
Muller001.jpg If you’ve been following the science of global warming for over a decade—as I have—you might find the recent conversion of Berkeley physicist Richard Muller into a climate believer kind of underwhelming. That’s certainly the reaction of many longtime climate scientists, with whom Muller now, finally, agrees. “At this rate, Muller should
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Daily Show Notes Irony of Koch-Funded Study Affirming Global Warming is Real
Last night's entire first segment of The Daily Show focused on the recent study funded by the Koch Brothers that confirmed (again) that climate change is indeed a reality – an ironic twist given the Kochtopus' track rec…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Why Hard Core Climate “Skeptics” Don’t Change Their Minds
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I’ve been watching with interest the blogosphere uproar over the release of results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project centered around physicist Richard Mulle…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Urban Heat Island – Favorite Skeptic Myth Debunked Again, This Time By Koch-Funded Science
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Climate skeptics are once again proven wrong, and this time even Koch money can't skew the facts.
Have you heard the one from climate deniers that the “Urban…
Koch-funded Climate Change study group admits earth getting warmer
It’s getting harder and harder for Climate Change skeptics to keep up their attack on science. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project (BEST), which became the ‘darling’ of Republicans when denier-friendly Richard Muller founded the gr…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Global Warming Confirmed: Urban Heat Islands, Surface Station Quality Have Little Effect On Temperature Readings
After the CRU-Hack and other pseudo-scandals of 2009, Berkeley physicist Richard Muller assembled a team of scientists and statisticians whose goal was to reanalyze land temperature records and determine once and for all whether factors such as th…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: BEST busts Urban Heat Island Myth
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Richard Muller not a Koch lackey after all …
During all the bad days when people were coughing up chunks of lung while the TV still touted Camels, it was never…