It has come to my attention that this study, funded by Koch Brothers, justifies that humans are responsible for global warming.
The Koch Brothers weren't the only funders:
I suspect Anonymous Foundation ($250,000) is Soros. I did observe Second Phase wasn't funded by Koch.Donors
First PhaseWe also received funding from a number of private individuals, totaling $14,500 as of June 2011.
- The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund ($20,000)
- William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation ($100,000)
- Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (created by Bill Gates) ($100,000)
- Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000)
- The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation ($50,000)
Second PhaseAll donations were provided as unrestricted educational grants, which means the donor organizations have no say over how we conduct the research or what we publish. All of our work and results are presented with full transparency.
- William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation ($100,000)
- The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation ($50,000)
- Anonymous Foundation ($250,000)
Other Financial Support
- This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 ($188,587)
From looking at the data from the Country List it is difficult for me to correlate the climate change associated with population and man made contributions.
And I'm supposed to be the Kook!
Just curious, is Berleleye the Chicago of California, or is Chicago the Berkeley of Illinois?
ReplyDeleteBoth are completely Objective to reach the conclusions needed to get the money.
Let's see there were 237 countries in the report and ALL of them showed increases in various degrees. If indeed there is "global warming" one might expect all of them to have some degree of increase and that's what the data seems to suggest. Wonder what that could mean? O of course, it has to be a conspiracy since the author has changed his mind from not believing the data just a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteCould the warming be from Natural Causes rather than man made? Or maybe the Wizards of Smart located the temperature sensors in the wrong locations.
ReplyDeleteWonder if the Sun or God had anything to do with it? That would make more sense since some of the areas most populated and more advanced went up less than some of the others that you wouldn't expect to go up at all, if the cause were man made.
I didn't see any data showing the author had changed his mind.
That was the headline of the article. A former strong skeptic has re reviewed the data and found that re-review supports global warming. That's the way science should work--challenge everything that hasn't been proven but change opinion when data lead you to it. The catholic church did the same thing as many Republicans for centuries, in that they held to there single minded believe regardless of the increasing facts that showed the Sun to be the center of the solar system.
Delete"What is the role of humans in climate change? “Call me a converted skeptic,” physicist Richard Muller wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times this week, describing his analysis of data from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. Though Muller was once a notable skeptic regarding studies connecting human activity to climate change, he has now concluded that “humans are almost entirely the cause” of global warming."
http://sciencefriday.com/segment/08/03/2012/changing-views-about-a-changing-climate.html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-big-cherry-picking-exercise-skeptics-weigh-in-on-the-latest-global-warming-study/
ReplyDeleteYour citation is a joke. You're citing a magazine written by Glen Beck. He's an entertainer and has a vested interest in perpetuating his position cause it makes money for him. He doesn't have the technical skills to determine which direction the earth is rotating. Citing him is like me citing that the economy is really getting better because the President says it is.
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