A Koch-funded scientist & global warming skeptic now admits man-made global warming is real. Thoughts?

Anyone who disbelieves in global warming is either because they haven't looked in to it enough, are flat-out denying the evidence, or they buy into spin that says otherwise, spin that typically comes from neoconservative sources like Fox News or Limbaugh.

Files were leaked previous within the 12 months from the 'free-market' Heartland Institute, revealing repayments to outstanding climate-trade deniers, a plan to create a fossil-gas-pleasant curriculum for Kindergartners, and efforts to 'preserve opposing voices' out of the media. There was no sense denying it by way of a outstanding scientist, no longer expecting to get funded to propagate a fable any longer. However one difficult part in case you listen to Muller, is that he is blaming others for the hindrance, like the chinese language and also stated that if we can not get the chinese to do some thing about it, then it's now not valued at it for us to do some thing.

People - including just about everyone on answers.com - believe just what they

want to believe. That is how human cognition works.

We start by adopting notions of how the world operates, and then we spend the

rest of our lives looking for facts that support those notions and no others.

We also are blind to any facts that go against our perception of how the world

works. It is as though they do not exist.

Once we have assembled our cherry-picked facts, we trot them out each time

that we meet some opposition.

Since we know that our facts are correct, why do we have to listen to anyone else?

The answer? You can have dozens, even hundreds of your facts correct, and still

be dead wrong about something, because there are thousands of facts that you are

ignoring!

It's a limitation of human cognition, you see. Look up "cognitive dissonance".

Of course there is rapid climate change. Of course it is partially caused by

human activities. The case is closed on that. The only thing really interesting

now is watching how long it takes the deniers to get so embarrassed by

their cupidity and their stupidity, that they shut up.

He made $150,000 and is now on to pushing for fracking as a source of clean energy instead of the use of coal. I wonder how many evironmentalist like that part of his "change of heart" LMAO! He also said he thinks we have little impact and that he (just like the rest of them) really can't tell how much of an impact man has. In other words...The globe is warming. Man may be doing a little something...Let's go frack for gas.

Oh you mean a Conservative did something that has been asked of the pro AGW crowd, that is show us everything. He's showing HIS data, unlike Mann, he put everything out for people to review.

Had the Pro-AGW done they years ago like they were asked too, maybe we could have done something about it. But as it is those who didn't release the data when asked should be tossed into jail and their names vilified for all time.

Didn't that happen like 5 years ago? And you're just now hearing about it?

More recently, the change has been in the opposite direction:

"The 'godfather of global warming' exposes the hoax of catastrophic climate change and characterizes "sustainable development" as "meaningless drivel' . "

http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-NEWS-and-...

31,000 American scientists now opposed to the concept of AGW:

http://www.oism.org/pproject/

I also find it hard to believe that a professor at Berkeley was anything other than a raving, foaming at the mouth, extremist, left-wing liberal whack job. I don't believe his "conversion" is genuine. Berkely is the world capital for liberalism/stupidity.

"I wonder how much more money the other side offered."

Given that the "other side" consists pretty much of scientists, not much. On the other hand, the side he just defected from has the full backing of the oil and gas industries. They bankrolled his study while he was agreeing with them.

Turns out he has some integrity. He bit the hand that was feeding him.

Drop the logic, and step slowly away from the conservatives...

I wonder how much more money the other side offered.

This reminds me of the 80's when the Brady antigun group paid some guys to research gun violence and why guns should be outlawed, the researchers not only showed over a million crimes being prevented by guns a year, but ended up joining the NRA.

Koch pays a lot.