08/03/2012

Changing Views About a Changing Climate

Large Arctic iceberg with a cavity inside. Image courtesy of Shuttershock
Large Arctic iceberg with a cavity inside. Image courtesy of Shuttershock

What is the role of humans in climate change? “Call me a converted skeptic,” physicist Richard Muller wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times this week, describing his analysis of data from the  Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. Though Muller was once a notable skeptic regarding studies connecting human activity to climate change, he has now concluded that “humans are almost entirely the cause” of global warming.

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Richard Muller

Richard Muller is the author of Energy For Future Presidents, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley California.