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The BBC, Slashdot and others are reporting that an independent study, funded by climate skeptics including the Koch brothers has confirmed that global warming is real. As reported by the BBC, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study came out with "a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's three most important and established groups, whose work had been decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate sceptic circles."
"Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK," said Prof Muller.
"This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions."
This doesn't mean that arguments about how and whether we should address GW will or should cease. And skeptics will still insist than human activity isn't a causal factor. But will they at least stop arguing that the warming trend doesn't exist?
"Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK," said Prof Muller.
"This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions."
This doesn't mean that arguments about how and whether we should address GW will or should cease. And skeptics will still insist than human activity isn't a causal factor. But will they at least stop arguing that the warming trend doesn't exist?