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Aug. 03, 2012
Changing Views About a Changing Climate
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What is the role of humans in climate change? “Call me a converted skeptic,” physicist Richard Muller wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times this week, describing his analysis of data from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. Though Muller was once a notable skeptic regarding studies connecting human activity to climate change, he has now concluded that “humans are almost entirely the cause” of global warming.
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Richard Muller
Author, "Energy For Future Presidents"
Professor, Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley
Faculty Senior Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley, California
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