Global warming predictions mapWIKIMEDIA COMMONS, ROBERT A. ROHDE
New methods and new data, same conclusion: the Earth is warming, according to a new study, funded in part by climate change skeptics.
The study was organized in 2009 by University of California physics professor Richard Muller in response to the "Climategate" scandal, in which the emails of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) were hacked and posted online in an effort to expose supposed data manipulation that exaggerated the planet's warming trends.
"I was deeply concerned that the group [at UEA] had concealed discordant data," Muller told BBC News.
But the new study puts such claims to bed. With funding from an unlikely source—billionaire US industrialists known to support groups that lobby against man-made global warming—the Berkeley Earth Project used up-to-date ...
