Richard Muller, a MacArthur fellow at UC Berkeley, and a contrarian who led a group of scientists — mostly physicists — into the foul waters of climate change denial, funded in large part by the justly-infamous Koch brothers, has been forced to admit by the extensive resampling of data from 40,000 field stations that yes, the Earth's atmosphere is warming, as thousands upon thousands of studies by reputable scientists around the world have reported in thousands of different ways.
"Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK," said Prof Muller.
"This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions."
Well, at least Muller apologized, more or less. Don't expect the same from the closed mind of denier Anthony Watts, who is continuing to refuse comment, claiming he couldn't possibly say anything about a paper that hasn't been peer-reviewed. Right. Even though he's published thousands of misleading posts about global warming based on, um, less substantial data, such as his recent sneer at Al Gore, for having the temerity to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Watts says Gore has "lost it." Actually Watts just lost the argument he's been flogging for years.
Kit Stolz 