Changing Views About a Changing Climate
August 4, 2012
Changing Views About a Changing Climate. Richard A Muller
I’m very bothered by what Prof Muller is doing these days. He has been a very vocal climate change denier and has enabled congressmen (esp. Sen Inhofe) to delay solutions and to castigate and denigrate real climate scientists.
He has received funding from a Koch foundation whose record has made it plain that they expect certain outcomes to scientific inquiry.
All of the research done by real climate scientists has been available (and massively peer reviewed) for some time now. This epiphany of Prof. Muller’s smells to me like a tactic change.
Most climate scientists have stayed out of the arguments over policies for addressing this real problem, but Prof. Muller jumps right into that arena with suggestions that border on demand that we accept fracking, and push for a move to natural gas. If the Koch brothers have conceded they are losing the argument on denial, might they want to set an agenda (fracking and natural gas) that would benefit them?
Further, what is the need for a book by Prof. Muller about his conversion? If it’s to explain what evidence there is for human caused climate change, that’s already been done very well by Michael Mann, among others. I can only think of two reasons for the book. One is for Muller to remain a prominent voice whichever way the discussion goes, and the other is to promote an agenda favorable to his Koch foundation backers.
He has received funding from a Koch foundation whose record has made it plain that they expect certain outcomes to scientific inquiry.
All of the research done by real climate scientists has been available (and massively peer reviewed) for some time now. This epiphany of Prof. Muller’s smells to me like a tactic change.
Most climate scientists have stayed out of the arguments over policies for addressing this real problem, but Prof. Muller jumps right into that arena with suggestions that border on demand that we accept fracking, and push for a move to natural gas. If the Koch brothers have conceded they are losing the argument on denial, might they want to set an agenda (fracking and natural gas) that would benefit them?
Further, what is the need for a book by Prof. Muller about his conversion? If it’s to explain what evidence there is for human caused climate change, that’s already been done very well by Michael Mann, among others. I can only think of two reasons for the book. One is for Muller to remain a prominent voice whichever way the discussion goes, and the other is to promote an agenda favorable to his Koch foundation backers.
GDACC 
