Muller and the Berkeley group have simply replicated what everybody else has already shown with temperature data, yet Muller says until his results, people should have been skeptical.
I previously posted that Richard Muller, a former skeptic that the earth was warming, was “converted” when he himself conducted a 2-year study to examine global temperature data. Prior to conducting his own investigation, he claimed skepticism over the way the data were analyzed. After his group examined the data themselves, they came to the exact same conclusions as every other climate scientist…the earth is warming.
So why am I saying he’s still a jerk? When asked about the study, Muller said “The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago.” He goes on to say “and NOW we have confidence that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had been done without bias.”
Muller really sounds like a jerk. Practically every climate scientist on the planet had looked at the temperature data and saw the obvious conclusion that the earth is warming. But Muller is basically implying that there could be no confidence in the temperature data until HE looked at it. Scientists can be pompous jackasses. Some skepticism is obviously good in science, as all theories need to be examined with a critical eye. But what Muller is basically saying is that it is HIS approach that has somehow confirmed the temperature rise in the data, and that previous efforts should be examined with skepticism…despite his results looking EXACTLY like previous results.
I guess when you’ve made as much of a fool of yourself like Muller did, this is his own personal way of saving face.
