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The conversion of a climate-change skeptic

Rich Muller, professor emeritus of physics | July 30, 2012

Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of … Continue reading »

Climate change in living color

Dan Farber, professor of law | November 10, 2011

Richard Muller’s research group has a video that shows changes in surface temperature over the past two centuries.  (He’s the physicist who took an independent look at the climate record; climate skeptics loved him until it turned out he had some inconvenient data.)  It’s pretty hard to miss what’s happening: big-time climate change.  Here’s the … Continue reading »