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Climate skeptic changes his mind

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:25 pm
by Zute
Ha! With Koch money a climate skeptic set out to prove it was nonsense but ended up figuring out we're pretty much doomed.
Snarky funny version: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2 ... googleplus

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. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the causeā€¦
Our results show that the average temperature of the earth's 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.

Not so snarky version: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opini ... wanted=all