Zelo na kratko: zanimiva kolumna od Krugmana v NY Times danes med drugim pravi:
“…Prof. Richard Muller of Berkeley, a physicist who has gotten into the climate skeptic game, has been leading the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, an effort partially financed by none other than the Koch foundation. And climate deniers — who claim that researchers at NASA and other groups analyzing climate trends have massaged and distorted the data — had been hoping that the Berkeley project would conclude that global warming is a myth.Instead, however, Professor Muller reported that his group’s preliminary results find a global warming trend “very similar to that reported by the prior groups…”Analiza prof. Mullerja še ni končana, vendar ga je Kongres pozval k pričanju na podlagi predhodne analize, kjer je Mueller rekel, da zdaj kljub svojim prvim dvomom misli, da je možno kontrolirati sistematični bias v podatkih, ter da se njegove preliminarne analize na nakljucnem vzorcu podatkov ujemajo z obstoječimi analizami drugih agencij (seveda nas zanima, kaj se bo zgodilo, ko si bo ogledal celotno zbirko podatkov).
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Mislim, da je zgodba z Mullerjem bolj stvar javno-politične predstave, kot kaj drugega. Glede na publiciteto, ki jo je dobil, pa vsaj v ZDA vendarle zna biti vsaj nekoliko koristna.
Bolj hladno gledano pa je vendarle podnebna znanost (več kot dovolj) razvita znanstvena disciplina, da v resnici ne potrebuje "neodvisnega znanstvenega junaka", da bi se legitimirala.
(Tule je še en članek izpred nekaj mesecev o Mullerju itd.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/27/can-these-scientists-end-climate-change-war )
Glede neodvisne znanosti pa -follow the money
"Muller spoke twice with ScienceInsider after testifying on 31 March before the science committee. Here are excerpts from those conversations." Q&A With Richard Muller: A Physicist and His Surprising Climate Data – ScienceInsider