XP from GD: Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’ (...and the cause is human)

[GliderGuider]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014179390

[OKIsItJustMe]

1. Of more interest

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

However, this is essentially an old story.
http://berkeleyearth.org/

[joshcryer]

2. BEST has come up several times before. But I wanted to post this prediction I made:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x276366

My certainty borders on religion.

[GliderGuider]

4. It's interesting how Curry has chosen to weasel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-change-mind

Early indications suggest that climate sceptics are unlikely to fully accept Best's latest results. Prof Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who runs a blog popular with climate sceptics and who is a consulting member of the Best team, told the Guardian that the method used to attribute the warming to human emissions was "way over-simplistic and not at all convincing in my opinion". She added: "I don't think this question can be answered by the simple curve fitting used in this paper, and I don't see that their paper adds anything to our understanding of the causes of the recent warming."

Basically it's the same old "La-la-la I can't HEAR you!"

[hatrack]

3. Kind of like coverage of the last Japanese soldiers on Saipan or Guam . . .

Interesting for the novelty value, but not exactly earth-shaking "news".