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Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds Global Warming Is Real, On The High End And Essentially All Due To Carbon Pollution
By Joe Romm on Jul 28, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming Is Real', 'On The High End' And 'Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress
By Joe Romm on Jul 28, 2012 at 5:31 pm
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST) is poised to release its findings next week on the cause of recent global warming.
UPDATE (9 pm): A NY Times op-ed by Richard Muller, BESTs Founder and Scientific Director, has been published, The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic.
Here is the money graf:
"Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. Im now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause."
Yes, yes, I know, the finding itself is dog bites man. What makes this man bites dog is that Muller has been a skeptic of climate science, and the single biggest funder of this study is the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($150,000). The Kochs are the leading funder of climate disinformation in the world!
It gets better:
"Our results show that the average temperature of the earths land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.
These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming."
In short, a Koch-funded study has found that the IPCC consensus underestimated both the rate of surface warming and how much could be attributed to human emissions!
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming Is Real', 'On The High End' And 'Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress