The statement you posted in the quote WAS from 2 years ago. . .whether you like it or not
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872 [QUOTE]Perhaps you misunderstand the Berkeley effort. They attempted to basically recreate East Anglea's chart with the4ir best guess at their data (best guess since th4ey lost the data as admitted). OK so it's similar. That was only part of the issue. The problems they concealed as they didn't suit the intended outcome were such things as th4e failure to warm as CO2 INCREASED[/QUOTE]. We are actually talking about a research FUNDED by the KOCH brothers (and Gates). The intent of the Koch brothers was obviously to discredit even further the climate change scientists, but the big surprise (for them) was that the theory of climate change was actually supported by that new research funded by them! Koch funded climate study, intended to prove climate scientists distort data, instead proves global warming is happening Submitted by Bill on April 1, 2011 - 10:36pm I have in the past often debated global warming with right wingers in various unsavory parts of the net, leading me to become much more familiar than some with their main arguing points. Frequently in these heated arguments (heated on their side, not so much mine), I make this point. "If you believe that climate scientists are all fudging the data so they will get funding because the government wants to use global warming as an excuse to impose a one world socialist government (a commonly seen assertion from the right, with a number of minor variations), then why doesn't your side fund it's own studies to publish in the science literature to prove your point?". Well, the Koch brothers, and others (including Bill Gates) actually did fund a study, under the auspices of the Novim Group, and they hired a famous climate skeptic to head it. The results of that study have been published, and testimony about that study made before congress. Put together under the aegis of Novim, a non-profit group that runs environmental studies, the team gathered up a bit over half a million dollars—including $100,000 from a fund set up by Bill Gates and $150,000 from the Koch foundation, whose animosity towards action on climate change made the Berkeley project look yet more suspicious to some climate-change activists—and got to work. There was also support from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab, where Dr Muller and some of his team work. It is probably fair to assume that Steve Koonin, an undersecretary of state at the energy department with whom Dr Muller has served as one of the “Jasons”, a group of particularly intellectually fearless scientists which provides blue-sky and sometimes far-out advice to the defence department, and who has also produced a report for Novim, had an unofficial eye on what was going on. [url]http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/03/climate_change
And whattya know, using the most rigorous of data analysis methods, and having climate sckeptics apply the data analysis, not only did not disprove the the three main models used by climate scientists, they confirmed it.
That's right, the Koch brothers funded a study they hoped would disprove global warming, but they ended up proving it instead. Ironically, their study supported the "hockey stick" they hate so much.
Here's a PDF of the testimony before congress. made by Richard Muller, a physicist who is one of the worlds most famous climate skeptics.
http://berkeleyearth.org/Resources/Muller_Testimony_31_March_2011
Sicence is never settled by politics and greed either!. . .so all we can do is look at data. . . and experience our earth ourselves.
