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Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today

Posted by samzenpus on from the on-second-thought dept.

Irishman writes "A leading climate change skeptic, Richard Muller, will release results today showing that global warming is indeed happening. He has shown that two items skeptics look to, urban heat islands and unreliable weather stations, do not skew the data. The amazing part is that this research is funded by the Koch brothers, two investors who fund climate change skeptics whenever possible."

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  1. Re:I wonder by neokushan · · Score: 1, Funny

    "we dun fucked up"

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  2. Oh goody... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reading Slashdot arguments about climate change is one of my favorite things to do.

    A Slashdot global warming discussion is like old people fucking. It's messy and not much gets accomplished.

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    1. Re:Oh goody... by CraftyJack · · Score: 3, Funny

      A Slashdot global warming discussion is like old people fucking. It's messy and not much gets accomplished.

      And...
      ...While everyone technically has the right equipment for this, not everyone's seems to be working quite right.
      ...Things are stretched and distorted beyond recognition.
      ...People take completely unrealistic positions and refuse to admit they can't hold them.
      ...It sounds like it might be entertaining, but it's mostly just disturbing.

  3. Re:Different thing by sanzibar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now... the denialists on SlashDot are saying ..

    Such a weak strawman. No wonder you had to post as Anonymous Coward...
    The real news of this story is that the co author slammed him, accused him of hiding data and put forth more data that shows you are basically full of shit.

    Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html

  4. Christ on a bike, this again? by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Funny
    Look, can we please all just wear badges showing what camp we're really in?
    1. Actual scientists who know what's going on and why (0.0001%).
    2. People who are profiting from screaming that the skies are falling but if you buy their book / fund their institute, they'll sell you a solution. (0.001%)
    3. People who are profiting from selling more of the problem. (0.01%)
    4. People who are just so angry about the corporations, because they're all... corporationy, man... so smash the system, dude, burn it down - but capture the carbon man, because the planet, man, the planet (0.1%)
    5. People who don't really care much one way or the other, and are pretty sick of listening to you yap on about it on computers that are overwhelmingly powered by burning fossil fuel instead of doing something about it by turning them off and knitting yourself a rainbow. (99.8889%)

    Are we all clear on that now?

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  5. Re:Different thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly! You can tell all those CC scientists guys 'cause they're always going around in those fancy cars and fancy suits and reporting year after year of record profits and record bonuses and how they have all that lobbyist influence with Congress and the White House. Damn them! Damn then to hell!

  6. Re:Different thing by BetterSense · · Score: 3, Funny

    Correction: warming is bad for SOME humans. Some humans, particularly every human living somewhere where it's cold, where they burn through megajoules of energy warming their houses and plowing snow and spreading salt on their roads, would do better to have longer growing seasons and more warm, tourist-friendly climate. Why are the interests of equatorial people more important than the interests of polar people? Why do you hate the Eskimos?