Let the games begin!

I picked a good weekend to be out of cell phone range and unconnected to the internet – and judging from how the rest of the week has gone, I’d have been minded to stay there… As most readers are probably aware, there was an op-ed in the Saturday New York Times from Richard Muller announcing the Berkeley Earth team’s latest results. It was odd enough that a scientific paper was announced via an op-ed, rather than a press release, odder still that the paper was only being submitted and had not actually been accepted, and most odd of all was the framing – a ‘converted skeptic’ being convinced by his studies that the planet has indeed warmed and that human activity is the cause – which as Mike and Ken Caldiera pointed out has been known for almost 2 decades. Not wanting to be upstaged, plenty of ‘unconverted skeptics’ – including Anthony Watts and Ross McKitrick decided to st...

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@nowurbanism » 09 Aug '12, 2pm
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@askageochemist » 07 Aug '12, 4pm
@RealClimate sounds off on the latest Berkeley Earth findings [link]
@CollinMaessen » 06 Aug '12, 10am
Excellent article from RealClimate on the recent climate 'publications': Let the games begin! [link]
@GarethSJones1 » 06 Aug '12, 8am
Gavin Schmidt's (RealClimate) take on the #sciencebypressrelease palava of last week [link]
@Vasper85 » 06 Aug '12, 2am
Muller: No True Scotmans [link]
@loftslag_is » 05 Aug '12, 10pm
“The ‘best’ response to this circus is to sit back and see how pretzel-like the logical justifications can become.” [link]
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@tingilinde » 04 Aug '12, 11pm
The best commentary to date on Muller's climate change change of mind [link] there is nothing new (sadly)
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@AdamskiPeter » 04 Aug '12, 10pm
Real Climate's Gavin Schmidt with his comments on Richard Muller’s trip to Damascus.[link] #climatechange
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