Rising land temperature is real, according to a study. A climate
skeptic has conduced several studies looking into temperature
data collected by weather stations over the past half-century
and has concluded that climate change is real. To be clear, the
findings discussed below haven’t been peer-reviewed. Phil Plait
at Discover magazine reiterates the early nature of the papers:
“Because of that, the results need to be taken with a grain of
salt. However, due to the nature of the study’s foundation and
funders, which I will get to in a moment, the results are most
definitely news-worthy.” The Berkeley group submitted four
scientific papers for peer review and expects it to be part of
the body of work in the next IPCC report on Climate Change. The
Berkeley Earth Project (BEP) looked at land temperature since
the mid-1950s. Berkeley Earth’s founder and director Richard A.
Muller said: “Our biggest surprise was that the new results
agreed so closely with the warming values published previously
by other teams in t