Now who's in hot water? A scientist and former global warming
skeptic made international headlines with a study that claimed
to prove the existence of global warming conclusively. Until his
own colleagues accused the research team of hiding the truth.
Professor Richard Muller of Berkeley University in California
and his team members from the Berkeley Earth Surface and
Temperatures program (BEST) released a study that illustrated
continual warming since 1950 -- making the planet almost 1.6
degrees warmer overall, they claim. “The skeptics raised valid
points and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago,”
Muller told the Associated Press. “And now we have confidence
that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had
been done without bias.” Not so fast. The results of the study
are now being called into question not just by climate skeptics
but by a leading member of Muller’s own team. Prof. Judith
Curry, head of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
at the Georgia Institute of