Richard Muller’s email: [email protected]
Climate Depot Response: ‘Did your ‘statistical methods’ rule out the hundreds of factors that make up global temps? Did you rule out the Sun, volcanoes, tilt of Earth’s axis, water vapor, methane, clouds, ocean cycles, plate tectonics, albedo, atmospheric dust, Atmospheric circulation, cosmic rays, carbon soot, forests & land use, etc.? Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, not just CO2, so please spare us your attempt at fingerprint modeling.’
Warmist William Connolley on Muller: Study is ‘purely a matter of pulling together a temperature record. They’ve done none of the attribution work you’d expect, in order to talk about attribution’ — Connolley: ‘And what they say…appears absurdly naive’
Analysis: Muller’s ‘Results Nothing New’: Warmist William Connolley finds new BEST results ‘rubbish’ (by which he means data analysis is nothing new, & the attribution claims not very scientific) — Stoat calls Muller a ‘prima donna,’ and quotes Ken Caldiera: ‘…I do not see the results of Muller et al as being scientifically important. However, their result may be politically important’
Flashback: Self-loathing Muller in 2003: ‘Scientists regard with disdain those who play their conclusions to the press’ — Muller: ‘In most fields of science, researchers who express the most self-doubt and who understate their conclusions are the ones that are most respected’
NYT’s Revkin accuses Muller of ‘P.T. Barnum showmanship…this could backfire’
Lord Monckton on Muller: ‘If he had had a Classical training, he would have been made familiar with dozen logical fallacies first codified by Aristotle 2300 years ago’ — Monckton: ‘Natural variability, therefore, is sufficient to explain all of the warming since 1750. No other explanation is necessary. Accordingly, it is not legitimate to claim, as the Berkeley team claim, that in the absence of any other explanation the warming must be attributed to CO2. That claim is an instance of the argumentum ad ignorantiam, the fundamental logical fallacy of argument from ignorance. It is not sound science’
Princeton Physicist Freeman Dyson on Muller like claims: ‘The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models’ — ‘They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models’
Earth to Richard Muller: We know that your incessant ‘I was skeptical until recently’ schtick is complete BS’ — Muller in 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’
The Truth about Richard Muller: ‘I was never a skeptic’ declared Richard Muller in 2011 — ‘No wonder Muller endorsed ‘The Earth is the Great Ship Titanic’, Steven Chu as ‘perfect’ for U.S. Energy Secretary and Al Gore’s hypocritical alarmism’
Flashback: Befuddled Warmist Richard Muller Declares Skeptics Should Convert to Believers Because His Study Shows the Earth Has Warmed Since the 1950s! — Climate Depot Responds — ‘Warming now equals human causation?! Muller should be ashamed of himself for promoting media spin like this’ — ‘Muller’s study is already being met with massive scientific blowback from his colleagues’
Muller in 2008: ‘The bottom line is that there is a consensus — the IPCC — and the president needs to know what the IPCC says’ — ‘2nd, they say that most of warming of last 50 years is probably due to humans. You need to know that this is from carbon dioxide’
Climate Depot Response: ‘So Prof. Muller, if you believed this in 2008, what has changed in 2012? How can you pretend to be ‘converted skeptic?!’
