Berkeley Earth is headed by a former skeptic who says he never was a skeptic, and a chief scientist who apparently never was a scientist.
By Richard Muller on December 17, 2003
Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium.
Medieval Global Warming – Page 2 | MIT Technology Review
11/03/11
“It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic“
Richard Muller, Climate Researcher, Navigates The Volatile Line Between Science And Skepticism
Steven Mosher is an English major with a long career in marketing and technology who is known for wasting everyone’s time by making indecipherable drive-by comments on skeptic websites. He is not an “aerospace engineer”, he is not an “open-source software developer” and he is certainly not a “scientist” (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary).
Exactly right and I have a whole post on the fake skeptic Muller too,
http://www.populartechnology.net/2012/06/truth-about-richard-muller.html
I just added this link in my article on Mosher.
Thanks for posting this BTW, any mention of it at Judith Curry’s Climate Ect. (including the so called “open thread) is getting heavily censored as I noted in my update:
* As an example of transparency and openness, Judith Curry is extensively censoring my comments at her website Climate ect. to protect Mr. Mosher who cannot handle tough questions about his background.
You cannot have the mindless drones knowing the truth about him, as they delusionally believe he is a scientist. Here is a comment I received:
“I assumed he had true scientist credentials. Based on your review, it would appear the arrogance was just a mask to hide his lack of professional scientist status.”
Way too many people wrongly believe he is a scientist and slowly but surely the truth will come out.
Poptech, I believe many people are afraid to admit that George Orwell’s “1984”, the futuristic novel Orwell started writing in 1946, arrived on schedule in 1984 and we were too dumb to realize it.
If Kazuo Kuroda had not recruited me in 1960 to discover information that frightened leaders tried to hide from the public in 1945, I would not have known either.
CO2/AGW is a house of cards that has stood because no breezes were allowed in. Phony skeptics, using censorship, have kept the truth out.
But, someone opened the window….
Thank you, Steven and poptech, for exposing real live propaganda artists pretending to be scientists. It seems Stalin persuaded other world leaders to adopt his methods of totalitarian control of the public in August 1945 to save the world from annihilation.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/CHAOS_and_FEAR_August_1945.pdf
Here is another link to the events that changed the course of world history and ended the scientific revolution in August 1945:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
A scientist follows scientific method. Having knowledge of a specific field of study is not the same thing.
http://www.shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html
From the poem:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
T.S. Elliot
Awesome piece. Until then end thought it was new and appropriate. As it turns out totally appropriate. Just written in a different time. Some things don’t change it would appear.
Poptech;
“Ect.”?? Do you pronounce it that way, too? A sure sign.
Yes, the typo has been corrected. Thank you for your assistance.
Dear Steven, what is the point of linking to articles hidden behind paywalls? It’s not very honest.
Apologies. The MIT paywall went away on its own. But now for something completely different….
Steven Goddard did anyone ever mention that you are a BS artist and illiterate as well? Did you read the MIT Richard Muller article? THERE IS NOTHING THERE TO DISAGREE WITH!!! Muller is one of the good guys. He thinks that Mann, UEA et al stink big time. He said that if scientists had to be licenced, the Climategate people should lose theirs.You blacken his name out of sheer ignorance. I am totally disappointed in you and I bet that you don’t have the grace to retract your article and your idiotic comments.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
oldfossil apologized for his first comment. I wonder if he will apologize for his second comment….
He seems quick to jump to conclusions, and quick to criticize.
It’s not rocket science. You bashed Richard Muller on the basis of an incomplete quote. The full article is very much in line with your position on climate. Therefore thusly ergo and QED, you are guilty of a fuckup. Is that too difficult to understand?
Muller was part of a dishonest PR campaign that I suspect was Mosher’s idea to hijack the skeptic position so he can be considered “recovered”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Why are you lying? No skeptic accepts these positions:
“If Al Gore reaches more people and convinces the world that global warming is real, even if he does it through exaggeration and distortion – which he does, but he’s very effective at it – then let him fly any plane he wants.” – Richard Muller, 2008
“There is a consensus that global warming is real. …it’s going to get much, much worse.” – Richard Muller, 2008
“Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate.” – Richard Muller, 2003
Muller is a dishonest fraud who lied to everyone in the NYT that he is a recovering skeptic.
This tit for tit makes you both Steve’s look like boobs. Seems to me that Mosher in his usual arrogant way has described the “flaws” in your data tampering graphs. His contention is that it needs to be spatially averaged, you seem to think not so — I say seem because either I have missed it or it does not exist.
If it does please point me to it, would greatly appreciate. If not, then it is sorely needed. Rest of it all is fluff.
So please rebut as logically as possible and leave the useless Warmist like rhetoric to Poptech the Ect machine.
Could you explain how ‘spatial averaging’ long time-series data records from a single site with other sites (is this the intent?) yields superior results, especially for determining temperature trends?
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I’m not interested in your moralizing.
It depends what data you are talking about. US HCN stations are fairly evenly spaced geographically and spatial averaging makes very little difference. In fact, it doesn’t affect the trend at all.
I don’t deal with raw global data which is all over the place and can produce any result you seek.
So Mosher’s point is irrelevant to what I am doing.
I love the attempt at reverse psychology trying to get people not to discuss Mr. Mosher’s background. When he has no problem using appeals to authority to try and make his arguments. I see no problem with putting Mr. Mosher’s arguments in their proper context of the English major that he is.
Mosh is a PITA;
Take your pick; 1. Polite; Intelligent; Thoughtful; Agreeable.
2. Pain In The Ass
Berkeley Earth, originally called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project
See also:
dog and pon·y show
noun
Region: NORTH AMERICAN; informal
def. an elaborate display or presentation, especially as part of a promotional campaign.
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Urban Dictionary: an elaborately staged activity, performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince people (from a derisive term for a small circus)
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per wiki, B.E.S.T. results (summary)
The team’s preliminary findings, data sets and programs were made available to the public in October 2011, and their results have been published as peer-reviewed scientific papers beginning in December 2012. The study addressed scientific concerns raised by skeptics including urban heat island effect, poor station quality, and the risk of data selection bias.
The Berkeley Earth group concluded that the warming trend is real, that over the past 50 years (between the decades of the 1950s and 2000s) the land surface warmed by 0.91±0.05°C, and their results mirrors those obtained from earlier studies carried out by the
– U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
– the Hadley Centre,
– NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature Analysis, and the
– Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
The study also found that the urban heat island effect and poor station quality did not bias the results obtained from these earlier studies..
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I discuss BEST in my expose on Mr. Mosher:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2014/06/who-is-steven-mosher.html
“Since the founder of Berkeley Earth, Richard A. Muller, is a Professor of Physics at the University of California Berkeley, it is incorrectly believed that Berkeley Earth is affiliated with the University but further research reveals that it is an independent 501C(3) Non-Profit Organization registered to a house in Berkeley California and completely unaffiliated with UC Berkeley. This gives the organization the facade of a scientific authority when in reality they can fabricate whatever titles they feel like.”
http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/CA/Berkeley-Earth-Inc.html