{"id":5060,"date":"2012-08-11T04:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:16:57","slug":"year-3-month-8-day-11-tremendous-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-8-day-11-tremendous-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 8, Day 11: Tremendous Richard(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/science\/article\/UC-climate-change-skeptic-changes-views-3748148.php\">More on Muller,<\/a> from the San Francisco Chronicle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The hot issue of global warming got hotter Monday when a UC Berkeley physicist, once a loud skeptic of human-caused climate change, agreed not only that the Earth is heating up, but also that people are the cause of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Muller converted only a year ago to the idea that the world has been warming for decades. Before then he had argued that global warming data &#8211; even figures compiled by U.N. experts &#8211; were badly flawed.<\/p>\n<p>Now Muller is going further, blaming the warming almost entirely on human emission of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide &#8211; a conclusion that almost all climate scientists reached long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Muller argued that the evidence from more than 36,000 temperature stations worldwide shows that the global thermometer has risen by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years. The warm-up began with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Muller said, and has accelerated in recent years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watchng the comments pile up is a real education in despair.  Sent July 31:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those seeking scientific opposition to the worldwide consensus on global climate change had their available options significantly reduced by Dr. Richard Muller&#8217;s &#8220;conversion.&#8221;  For many years, Muller was one of the go-to guys for media outlets needing a contrarian voice to bolster a &#8220;the science isn&#8217;t settled&#8221; argument.  Now, with the release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project&#8217;s results, Muller embraces the science he once scorned, leaving conservative pundits and politicians no choice but Dr. Richard Lindzen, the poster boy not only for climate-change denialists, but also for those who still doubt the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Like those apocryphal Japanese soldiers still fighting Allied forces on forgotten Pacific islands, Lindzen is a true believer with thoroughly solidified opinions, making him a perfect recipient for the Koch brothers&#8217; next climate-change research grant. The rest of us are pleased to welcome Richard Muller to the reality-based community.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on Muller, from the San Francisco Chronicle: The hot issue of global warming got hotter Monday when a UC Berkeley physicist, once a loud skeptic of human-caused climate change, agreed not only that the Earth is heating up, but also that people are the cause of it all. Richard Muller converted only a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[467,207,644,1169,1013,688],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-idiots","tag-media-irresponsibility","tag-richard-lindzen","tag-richard-muller","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}