Last year, Berkley physicist Richard Muller excited the climate world with this WSJ op-ed: The Case Against Global Warming Skepticism He touted his Berkley team’s preliminary re-analysis of temperature trends that, as Brad Plumer drily noted, appears to have confirmed the basic tenets of climate science. At the time, many climate scientists rolled their eyes at…Continue Reading…
Judith Curry gets wowed in between conference sessions: Today I had lunch with Richard Muller and Christopher Monckton (!) Topics covered included Climategate, the IPCC, climate sensitivity, trend analysis. I was relatively passive, just taking it all in What an amazing conversation. Gee, I wonder if the subject of Nazis came up at all.
Is Judith Curry throwing Richard Muller under the bus in this newspaper article, as Anthony Watts chortles here? Or has Curry been played by the notorious David Rose, the author of the Mail piece? Either way, Watts, ever the dramatist, channels his inner Godfather with this faux exasperation: I try to get away to work on…Continue Reading…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross famously coined the five stages of grief: 1) Denial, 2) Anger, 3) Bargaining, 4) Depression, 5) Acceptance Anthony Watts appears to be stuck at stage 2. Oh sure, he’s still very much in denial over this, but make no mistake, he’s also fuming and furiously spinning. It is highly doubtful that any amount of peer review–when…Continue Reading…
Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is turning out to be one of the most interesting and controversial new players in the climate arena. It’s still early in the year, but it’s looking like he’ll be the Judith Curry of 2011. Fresh off his recent congressional testimony (which turned out to be a deep disappointment to Marc…Continue Reading…