Richard Muller of UC Berkeley, got FHers of the green variety all - go ahead and wince at the pun - hot and bothered last week with some interviews and a WSJ piece claiming that the team on which he's been co-leader for the last couple of years, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team, had determined, using methods such as weighting data more heavily toward dry land temperature fluctuations, that the globe is indeed warming rapidly. Claims the findings had converted him from sceptic to believer.
Now his Best co-leader, Judith Curry, chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Insitute of Technology, says that he obscured the data everybody's known for some time, that there's been no warming in the last ten years. She and others are also disparaging his having gone to the mainstream press before publishing his conclusions in a peer-reviewed journal. Also, several people who would chime in with objections are bound by confidentiality agreements.
So up with the floodlights and thermostat.
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