![It’s Getting Hot in Here
A super-duper, hyper massive study conducted by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project confirms that the earth really is warming.
Created by UC Berkeley scientist Richard Muller, the study was funded by strange bedfellows as diverse as Bill Gates and the Koch Foundation, and essentially took data sets from major previous studies, reanalyzed them, adding new data points to the mix and has concluded that global temperature has risen about 1 degree celsius over the past 50 years.
Climate change is a disputed topic in American politics and the study’s authors hit the debate from the get go:
The most important indicator of global warming, by far, is the land and sea surface temperature record. This has been criticized in several ways, including the choice of stations and the methods for correcting systematic errors. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study sets out to to do a new analysis of the surface temperature record in a rigorous manner that addresses this criticism. We are using over 39,000 unique stations, which is more than five times the 7,280 stations found in the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) that has served as the focus of many climate studies.
Importantly, BEST is releasing all their data so anyone and everyone can take a look at it.
As The Register notes:
The study – the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project – was set up by a University of California astrophysicist who was concerned about the “climategate” dustup over email messages hacked from the UK’s University of East Anglia (UEA) that led many observers to believe that climate data had been fudged to exaggerate global warming.
The core of UC Berkeley scientist Richard Muller’s concern was not, however, that the UEA scientists were getting a raw deal; in his opinion they had brought the worldwide criticism upon themselves.
“I was deeply concerned that the group [at UEA] had concealed discordant data,” Muller told BBC News. “Science is best done when the problems with the analysis are candidly shared.”…
…The BEST team, however, had a stated goal of neither proving nor disproving global temperature increases. As expressed by project cofounder Elizabeth Muller, Richard’s daughter, the goal was to conduct an analysis so data-rich and objective that it would “cool the debate over global warming by addressing many of the valid claims of the skeptics in a clear and rigorous way.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlpdtG1EA1qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
It’s Getting Hot in Here
A super-duper, hyper massive study conducted by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project confirms that the earth really is warming.
Created by UC Berkeley scientist Richard Muller, the study was funded by strange bedfellows as diverse as Bill Gates and the Koch Foundation, and essentially took data sets from major previous studies, reanalyzed them, adding new data points to the mix and has concluded that global temperature has risen about 1 degree celsius over the past 50 years.
Climate change is a disputed topic in American politics and the study’s authors hit the debate from the get go:
The most important indicator of global warming, by far, is the land and sea surface temperature record. This has been criticized in several ways, including the choice of stations and the methods for correcting systematic errors. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study sets out to to do a new analysis of the surface temperature record in a rigorous manner that addresses this criticism. We are using over 39,000 unique stations, which is more than five times the 7,280 stations found in the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) that has served as the focus of many climate studies.
Importantly, BEST is releasing all their data so anyone and everyone can take a look at it.
The study – the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project – was set up by a University of California astrophysicist who was concerned about the “climategate” dustup over email messages hacked from the UK’s University of East Anglia (UEA) that led many observers to believe that climate data had been fudged to exaggerate global warming.
The core of UC Berkeley scientist Richard Muller’s concern was not, however, that the UEA scientists were getting a raw deal; in his opinion they had brought the worldwide criticism upon themselves.
“I was deeply concerned that the group [at UEA] had concealed discordant data,” Muller told BBC News. “Science is best done when the problems with the analysis are candidly shared.”…
…The BEST team, however, had a stated goal of neither proving nor disproving global temperature increases. As expressed by project cofounder Elizabeth Muller, Richard’s daughter, the goal was to conduct an analysis so data-rich and objective that it would “cool the debate over global warming by addressing many of the valid claims of the skeptics in a clear and rigorous way.”
