Saturday - March 10, 2012

Fake And Inaccurate

An Army of Andrews fights all the BS memes, all the time.  I found this one at CNN this morning while looking for news stories. It’s a 15 picture photo essay of the Por ‘n Starvin’, their harmonious-with-nature home brought low by Glowball Warming!!!1111!!

On the shore of a vanishing island

Daesung Lee sees global connections the rest of us often don’t recognize or choose not to dwell on.

Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.

“I have researched the effect of global warming, which is caused by mass consumption and pollution. Since the 1980s, more than 50% of the Ghoramara has vanished due to erosion by the sea. As a result two-thirds of the population have moved away from the island,” Lee says.

“This world is more connected than we can imagine by globalization. Most of the products we use for everyday life are produced by people we never know.”

He says many people who aren’t involved in the consumption of these products become “environmental refugees.”

“I hope people realize that climate change is more serious than we know and we have a major responsibility for it. I also hope people consider the impact that our consumption has on the world … and make efforts to reduce it by recycling products and using them long term.”

Working on the remote island had its challenges. With no electricity, Lee was forced to leave the island to go to the mainland every three days to charge his camera batteries.

He posed villagers on the shore and took portraits of them in juxtaposition with the beauty of the vanishing island.

“The villagers in Ghoramara have begun to save money in preparation to buy new farms,” Lee says. “I could see the traces of a heritage vanishing by the rising tides. Exposed roots of plants destroyed by the erosion serve to illustrate the absence of foundation in the lives of these people. The sea is swallowing up their past, while their future remains unknown.”

– Robert W. Johnson, CNN

What he isn’t telling you is that the island of Ghoramara is little more than a hump of mud on the outside edge of a bend in the Rupnarayan River where it dumps into the Bay of Bengal at the north end of the Indian Ocean. It’s a pile of silt with some grass growing on it. As anyone who knows anything about rivers knows, they are constantly changing. Riverine silt islands come and go all the time. It’s just that in this overpopulated and poorest corner of the Turd World, people will live on any piece of somewhat dry ground they can find. In this case, there was probably no more room in the nearby town of Kakdwip (is that the ancestral home of Barney Frank??) and it was either live on the silt pile or share the stanky mangrove swamp to the East with a bunch of tigers. Climate change, global warming, increased consumption, and insufficient recycling have nothing to do with this eroding mud pile whatsoever. But it does make a better picture than some lone polar bear clinging to a bit of sea ice, right? And most folks won’t even read the whole one paragraph story, they’ll just look at the pictures. And then Blame Bush.

See the map at Wiki, or Google Map up 21.916667, 88.129722.

Fight the meme. Do not accept the lie.

PS - the Rupnarayan River was dammed some years ago, some miles upstream at Kolaghat, for a hydropower generator. This lowered the level of the river, perhaps allowing this pile of silt mud to surface and dry out in the first place. The province of West Bengal is in desperate need of electricity, so it is entirely probable that the electricity people - government employees - have been running more water through their turbines to produce it. That would put more water in the river, which would in turn rise up in level, and erode or drown the mud island as it should have done all along.

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   Thursday - March 08, 2012

The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling

No wonder it feels like Spring today. Here in NJ, in the middle of March, in the waning days of Winter, it’s nearly 70°F out, again. I’ve got the heat off and the windows open, which is airing out some of last night’s aroma from the chicken curry I made. We’re getting a couple of nice days of Global Warming, because you can’t warm the planet without having more potent energy from the Sun. And that’s what we’ve got right now.

Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth

[ but, but , but ... didn’t the warm mongers insist just a couple of years ago that climate had nothing at all to do with the Sun??? ]

A massive solar storm is due to arrive at Earth early Thursday, and is expected to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

A giant blast of plasma spat from the sun at as much as 4 million miles per hour Tuesday—by some measures the largest solar event since late 2006—and it could lead to serious issues on Earth, forcing some planes to reroute, knocking out power grids, and blacking out radios.

The sun unleashed the cosmic double whammy late March 6, erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms, Space.com reported. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption so far this year.

Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have. They followed several weaker, but still powerful, sun storms on Tuesday and came just days after another major solar flare on Sunday night.

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Solar radiation storms could reach as high as S4, he noted, which could cause astronauts on the International Space Station to seek shelter from the heightened radiation levels associated with such a storm.

These effects should last about 24 hours, probably lingering overnight into the early morning hours on Friday, pending another eruption—“and we think there will be more coming,” Kunches said.

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   Saturday - February 25, 2012

One Fine Day

Weather or Not



It’s a lovely early Spring day here in Clinton in the dark dead of Winter. The sun is shining brightly, the sky is blue with just a couple little cotton ball puffs of cloud. It seems to be about 45° out. And it’s snowing. Say What? Let me check again. Nope, it stopped. Nope, it started again. Stopped again. Now it’s snowing again. Arrggh, MAKE UP YOUR MIND, I can’t take it anymore!!! Is it Winter, Spring, or Fall??

Sorry. I guess I’m having a momentary lapse of season.

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot one another
A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came and killed the two dead boys

I’m so confused.

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   Thursday - February 09, 2012

Please Just Shut Up And Go Away

The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Meltwater from Asia’s peaks is much less than previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern

Earth’s Polar Ice Melting Less Than Thought

Ocean levels worldwide are rising about six hundredths of an inch per year

0.06” is a hair thicker than a dime, which is 1.35mm or 0.053”. At that rate it would take the oceans 200 years to rise a foot, and more than 1000 years to rise enough to seriously screw with the world’s coastlines.

The GRACE satellite experiment, however, covered the entire globe and found that all the world’s glaciers and ice caps combined, apart for those in Greenland and Antarctica, had lost about 148 billion tonnes of ice, or about 39 cubic miles, annually between 2003 and 2010. The individual glaciers on the fringes of Greenland and Antarctic contributed an additional 80 billion tons over the same period, the study published in Nature found.

“This is the first time anyone has looked at all of the mass loss from all of the Earth’s glaciers and ice caps with GRACE,” said John Wahr, professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was part of the research team that analysed the satellite data.

Surface area of all the open water on the planet: 361,132,000km² = 139,433,844 sq mi.

V = H*L*W = H * area, therefore V/area = H. Substituting in the values, 39 cubic miles ÷ 139,433,844 sq mi. = 0.0000002797” , which is a hair more than a quarter of a ten millionth of an inch. Don’t forget that most manual static measuring tools lose precision after 0.0001”; you simply can not measure less than a ten thousandth with any kind of accuracy outside of a laboratory. In a dynamic environment, like the surface of an ocean, it would take untold zillions of measurements over time - oodleplexes of them - to calculate this kind of delta.

So 39 cubic miles sounds like a lot, but the earth is a big place, and if you spread it out over all the existing water surface, it amounts to nothing.

Is the climate changing? Sure. That’s it’s job. It’s always changing. Can we say for sure whether the long term trend is hotter or colder? No. Precision recording thermometers have existed for perhaps a century, and have been in widespread use for perhaps half that time. Actual global climate - not current weather patterns in a semi-local area - runs on a geologic time scale, and 50 years of data barely scratches the surface of that. Assuming of course that the data is accurate, which it often isn’t. Assuming even further that we can trust the published GRACE data, and that is debatable. Climate scientists have lied to us so many times now that I wouldn’t believe them if they cried wolf and there were lupine teeth biting my leg.

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   Tuesday - February 07, 2012

The Midnight Sun Scenario…

The Coming of the New Ice Age.

I know, those of us who where around in the late ‘70s know that global cooling was the culpritl The point that Zombie at PJ Media makes is that the left’s solution is the same:

The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect of this serial crisis-mongering:

The “solutions” prescribed to solve both Global Warming and the looming Ice Age are exactly the same.

In both cases, proponents of the theory-du-jour say that in order to stave off disaster, we must reverse the march of civilization, stop our profligate use of carbon-based fuels, cede power and money from the First World to the Third World, and wherever possible revert to a Luddite pre-industrial lifestyle.

If you want to voluntarily be a Luddite, fine. I’m actually trying to do the same thing. PERSONALLY. I’m not advocating that anyone follow my example… I just want to have a garden, cook my own fresh breads, and, if there weren’t actual laws against it, have a few chickens in the backyard. That probably screws the Luddite goal because more people baking their own bread, more people using their own ovens, oh dear, we can’t have that!

Oh, wait, do current Luddites like Al Gore follow their own teachings? I doubt Al Gore could cook pancakes from scratch,. Just had to throw that in…

No, I’m just trying to simplify my own life and cut household expenses. What YOU do is your choice. And it certainlhy should not be the government’s business.

Zombie goes on to cite an old 1961 Twilight Zone episode, The Midnight Sun:

The scenario we’re in reminds me of the classic Twilight Zone episode called “The Midnight Sun”: At first we see the characters sweltering in increasingly unbearable heat as the Earth, knocked out of its orbit, slowly plummets into the sun. Just as they are all about to burn to death, in typical Twilight Zone fashion, the lead character wakes up — she had in fact merely been having a fever dream about the world getting hotter; in reality, the Earth had been knocked away from the sun, and they’re all going to freeze to death. Ha ha — gotcha!

Just for fun, I found that 1/2-hour episode and I’m posting it in full.

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   Monday - February 06, 2012

doggy eye candy and some great pix.  have fun.

I’d call it eye candy of sorts. But, if you will please click on this adorable image, you will get an eyeful.
Enjoy.

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   Saturday - January 21, 2012

There’s No Business Like Snow Business

Eeek, winter! Looks like almost half a foot already, and it’s still coming down hard. And it’s cold! We had March for all of December and 2/3 of January; I got spoiled.

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   Wednesday - January 11, 2012

I think I could be in love

An entire news article that explains the oddly warm winter most of the USA has been having so far this season, that goes into a fair level of climate science, and does NOT mention AGW or Climate Change even once. Be still, my heart.

It felt more like March than January in many places last week, as more than 1,000 temperature records fell across the country during a winter that has been unusually warm and dry in many places
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Whether you are rejoicing the lack of cold or lamenting the lack of snow, you may be wondering: What’s behind the weirdly warm weather?

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/11/this-winters-weirdly-warm-weather-explained/?test=faces#ixzz1jBn01pve
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Several forces are at work, experts say. To begin with, La Niña conditions have pushed warm water toward Australia in the western Pacific, leaving ocean waters off the American West coast about 5 degrees F colder than usual. As a result, moisture levels are currently low in the atmosphere from California to Washington State.

As for what’s ultimately beneath the weather rut we’re in, climate change is a tempting target but global warming is not necessarily to blame. In fact, a warmer world would cause warmer oceans

... and so on, blah blah blah. And not a single peep from the lunatic fringe.

It’s like actual reporting. Awesome.

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   Tuesday - January 03, 2012

More Than Just Another Fish Story

“This is evolution in action.” [Somebody call Ann Coulter, quick.]

World-first hybrid shark found off Australia

Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.

The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.

“It’s very surprising because no one’s ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination,” Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.

“This is evolution in action.”

Colin Simpfendorfer, a partner in Morgan’s research from James Cook University, said initial studies suggested the hybrid species was relatively robust, with a number of generations discovered across 57 specimens.

The find was made during cataloguing work off Australia’s east coast when Morgan said genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.

The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.

It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.

Let’s see ... sharks have been around for how long? Oh right. Sharks have been around for HALF A BILLION YEARS, and the ones we see today have been in their current form for about 100 million years, give or take a millenium. And in all that time the oceans must have never warmed up or cooled down even a degree, how many ice ages be damned, because now, when one bunch of dorks in dinghies finds the results of an aquatic redneck family get-together, suddenly it’s emergency evolution driven by one and only one possible reason.    

Climate change and human fishing are some of the potential triggers being investigated by the team, with further genetic mapping also planned to examine whether it was an ancient process just discovered or a more recent phenomenon.

If the hybrid was found to be stronger than its parent species—a literal survival of the fittest—Simpfendorfer said it may eventually outlast its so-called pure-bred predecessors. [Drew: wouldn’t that be a littoral survival of the fittest? Or is that too shallow a jest?]

“We don’t know whether that’s the case here, but certainly we know that they are viable, they reproduce and that there are multiple generations of hybrids now that we can see from the genetic roadmap that we’ve generated from these animals,” he said.

“Certainly it appears that they are fairly fit individuals.”

The hybrids were extraordinarily abundant, accounting for up to 20 percent of black-tip populations in some areas, but Morgan said that didn’t appear to be at the expense of their single-breed parents, adding to the mystery.

In other words, this kind of shark, long considered to be several different species, has always interbred - that would cover the “multiple generations” part and the “extraordinarily abundant” part - but Science (cue Heavenly Trumpets) just never noticed it before. But WTF, let’s not admit that, and instead blame Global Warming. And probably George Bush, by next week.

Dorks in dinghies ... chum, but with pocket protectors.

PS - Simpfendorfer??? Sounds like some kind of 4 1/2 string electric guitar for that special musician in your life. Yeah, my sense of humor is that bass.

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weather or not

Damn, what happened? I was just starting to get used to this “winter” where it was 45-55° every day. It was like winter in the UK, which is usually pretty mild. Now suddenly it’s coldaz’ell out there! BRRRR!!!

Farg this, I want Peiper’s climate.

Thanks for nothing, Al Gore.

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   Wednesday - December 14, 2011

Connect The Dots?

Polar bears eating their young, blame Glowball Worming!

BBC Caught Faking Polar Bear Climate Change Photos

Kind of makes me wonder.

Meanwhile, ClimateGate II continues, but I’m so sick of that nonsense I’m not even going to link to it. Ok, I’ll only link it generically, but the whole thing is a crap sandwich with more layers than you can stomach. Canada pulling out of Kyoto, Climate Change blamed for the continued desertification of the Sahel, instead of the goat based economy and the slash ‘n burn practices of the natives AND in direct opposition to the pile of reports over the past 20 years saying the area is getting greener, more data fakery from teh rubber thermometer squad, etc. The only real news from that whole darn genre is the two guys who quit their jobs as hurricane predictors because they realized they had been dead wrong every year for ages, and that the much vaunted models simply don’t work.

I’m sure that Climate Chaos™ will soon be blamed for lions, fish, scorpions, barn cats, sea birds, insects, and all other species who eat their young and always have too. Desperate idiots. Take their keyboards away, they’re a danger to the rest of us.

On the other hand, there may actually be some good news hiding in there somewhere regarding the cannibalism bit, and I think Global Werming should take the blame.

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   Monday - December 12, 2011

AMERICA - CHINA - INDIA WILL BE FORCED BY NEW AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CONTROL

I am so tired of this subject but.
Now it’s closer to home (USA) because apparently America is on the Euro-weenie climate bandwagon.  OK I know we always have been. But I just didn’t expect this, this soon.  Not very observant of me perhaps. But considering who is in the White House, and the nest of vipers on the left, I should have expected it even sooner. 

God, how I hate the idea of us co-operating with those zealots. And I think you all must know it’s going to cost us all a lot more as well.
But be careful. You know what happened to people in the past who didn’t follow the prescribed religious line.  And this is definitely the new religion.
Watch out for Torquemada. He wears a suit and tie these days.  His many adherents can be found wearing scruffy jeans and scraggly beards and some wear commie glasses and caps and with their unwashed female friends, can usually be found either occupying some public space with profound slogans on cardboard or else holding hands singing we are the world.
Sorry but these sky is falling climate freaks just annoy me.

see the link below for all the story and the video.

Durban climate change conference: Big three of US, China and India agree to cut carbon emissions

A new deal to “save the planet” will force the world’s three biggest emitters the US, China and India to cut carbon emissions for the first time, although scientists fear it will come too late to stop global warming.

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, in Durban

More than 190 countries managed to finally agree a new climate change deal amid chaotic scenes in the early hours of Sunday morning in Durban, South Africa.
As the United Nations conference overran into its second day it looked like the talks were on the brink of collapse as the EU and India argued over just two words in the text.
In the end the wording was decided in an extraordinary 10 minute ‘huddle’ between the exhausted ministers to decide the fate of future generations.
The ‘Durban Platform’ will commit all countries to a global deal on cutting carbon emissions by 2015 although it will not come into force until 2020.
The UN marked it as an “historic breakthrough to save the planet”, that makes up for the collapse of the last high profile attempt for a global deal in Copenhagen in 2009.

It was the first time that the ‘Big 3’, the US, India and China, that make up almost half of the world’s emissions, have agreed to cut emissions as part of a legal treaty.
“What we have done today is a great success for European diplomacy. We have managed to put this on the map and take the major emitters – the US, India and China – to a road map that will secure an overarching deal,” he said.
The EU has also agreed to a second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol from 2013 as part of the deal so that the world has a legal treaty to cut emissions in place before 2020.

TELEGRAPH AND VIDEO

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   Monday - November 21, 2011

Another Inconvenient Truth

Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed

ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory — Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it’s not just here. Across the tundra 1,500 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, Canada’s Beverly herd, numbering more than 200,000 a decade ago, can barely be found today.

Halfway around the world in Siberia, the biggest aggregation of these migratory animals, of the dun-colored herds whose sweep across the Arctic’s white canvas is one of nature’s matchless wonders, has shrunk by hundreds of thousands in a few short years. From wildlife spectacle to wildlife mystery, the decline of the caribou — called reindeer in the Eurasian Arctic — has biologists searching for clues, and finding them.

They believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating a species that has long numbered in the millions and supported human life in Earth’s most inhuman climate. Many herds have lost more than half their number from the maximums of recent decades, a global survey finds. They “hover on the precipice of a major decline,” it says.

But today:

Canadian elders right all along, ‘lost’ caribou herd had just moved

A vast herd of northern caribou that scientists feared had vanished from the face of the Earth has been found, safe and sound — pretty much where aboriginal elders said it would be all along.

“The Beverly herd has not disappeared,” said John Nagy, lead author of a recently published study that has biologists across the North relieved.

Those scientists were shaken by a 2009 survey on the traditional calving grounds of the Beverly herd, which ranges over a huge swath of tundra from northern Saskatchewan to the Arctic coast. A herd that once numbered 276,000 animals seemed to have completely disappeared, the most dramatic and chilling example of a general decline in barren-ground caribou.

But Nagy’s research — and consultation with the communities that live with the animals — concludes differently. His work springs from recent studies that question the long-held theory that caribou always return to the same calving ground. It holds that different herds use different grounds, and that’s what sets them apart.

“In the past, herds have been defined based on their calving grounds,” said Nagy. “However, it’s been shown that not all herds maintain fidelity to their calving grounds.”

Herds are now defined by which animals hang out together, not by where they give birth.

“It’s actually behaviour that structures these herds, not calving grounds.”

It turns out that the Beverly herd has simply shifted its calving grounds north from the central barrens near Baker Lake, Nunavut, to the coastal regions around Queen Maud Gulf. Nagy’s analysis of radio-tracking data showed caribou in the region once thought to belong to the Ahiak herd are, in fact, Beverly animals.

Said Campbell: “When the initial alarm bells were ringing about the Beverly herd disappearing, right away we went in to talk to the communities and they said: ‘No, no, no. These caribou have moved north and we’ve been told by our elders that they do that.’”

Thompson heard the same. “Many of the community people reported that elders think this is nothing new. Caribou move.”

Next time, said Campbell, scientists should pay them a little more mind.

What would the stupid locals know? They aren’t PHDs. They’re just stupid Indians. Icebound flyover rednecks. And I’m sure the sciencey dorks figured that with the herds gone, the polar bears (caribou’s natural predator) were drowning themselves in fits of depression.

Stupid alarmist scientists, going off half-cocked.  I think a 9 iron to the nutz is called for, so that in the future they’ll go off completely de-cocked if they can go off at all.

h/t to the Daily Bayonet

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   Monday - October 31, 2011

the nutty professor on global warming

Drew’s post on things green reminded me of this article I saw but couldn’t post earlier.  Been out and away from pc last couple hours, better late then never I suppose although this won’t come as a surprise to us here.  And the hang wringing left won’t believe it anyway.
Take a look.

Professor Judith Curry, of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the U.S., said Professor Muller’s comments were a ‘huge mistake’ and that she planned to discuss her future on the project with him.
She said their data actually showed average world temperatures had ‘paused’ since the late 1990s and a graph published on the project’s website depicting temperatures from 1850 to 2006 appeared to ‘hide the decline’.

Scientist who claimed ‘end of scepticism’ on climate change under fire from colleague over ‘huge mistake’·
Professor claims project director has oversold the results of a study in favour of global warming
Expert says average world temperatures have ‘paused’ since the late 1990s

By TAMARA COHEN
Last updated at 9:01 AM on 31st October 2011

One of the authors of a scientific study billed as the ‘end of scepticism’ about climate change yesterday threatened to quit after she said the project leader underplayed the fact there has been no global warming for 13 years.

Professor Judith Curry was one of ten experts attempting to compile definitive temperature data going back more than 200 years.
But she claimed it had been ‘tarnished’ by the project’s director ‘overselling’ the results in favour of global warming.

Funded by a number of donors, including sceptics of climate change, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project concluded global temperatures had risen by around 1c since the 1950s, in line with official estimates from Nasa and the Met Office.

The project’s director, Professor Richard Muller, told the media it showed ‘you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
He also told the BBC’s Today programme the temperature rise was ongoing, saying: ‘We see no evidence of it [global warming] having slowed down.’

Controversial: Professor Richard Muller, left, and his daughter, Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and executive director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project

CLIMATE ACCORDING TO

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