Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study

chrb writes "The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project — an independent study of Earth's historical temperature record partly funded by climate skeptics, including the Koch brothers — has released preliminary results that show the same warming trend as previous research. Project leader and physics professor Richard Muller, of the University of California, has stated that he was 'surprised' at the close agreement, and it 'confirms that these studies were done carefully.' The study also found that warming in the temperature record was not caused by poor quality weather monitoring stations — thus rejecting a frequent claim of skeptics. Climate skeptic Stephen McIntyre has previously said 'anything that [Muller] does will be well done.'"

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Re:Which side of the bread is buttered?

[SomeKDEUser]

See, it was always going to come out that way. Fields usually have bitter feuds and disagreements. These are perfectly hermetic to outsiders. But questioning a result undisputed within a field, that is, the stuff people have been agreeing on since forever, when you come from outside it, this is ludicrous.

It is not because you do not understand all the details of how they do stuff that they do it wrong. Things are done in a certain way usually because it was found again and again to Work (TM). It was incredibly arrogant to think that your "advanced statistical methods" would yield different results.

Re:Beside the point?

[Sockatume]

Right, and to do effectively that we will have to rely on information coming from climate science. A research field that a large part of the internet, and pretty much the entire Republican party, have decided is incompetent or corrupt.