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Muller's Star Turn in Climate Soap Opera

Berkley physicist Richard Muller ignites climate change skepticism with new claims amidst past funding controversies by the Koch brothers.

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Last year, Berkley physicist Richard Muller excited the climate world with this WSJ op-ed:

The Case Against Global Warming Skepticism

He touted his Berkley team's preliminary re-analysis of temperature trends that, as Brad Plumer drily noted,

appears to have confirmed the basic tenets of climate science.

At the time, many climate scientists rolled their eyes at Muller's grandstanding announcement, but because he was a darling of climate skeptics and his work was partially funded by the Koch brothers, it was all great fodder for the long-running soap opera, "As the Climate World Turns." Today, Muller is back in the news with what seems like a slightly tweaked re-run of the original episode. Roger Pielke Jr. yawns and Joe Romm calls it a bombshell. As this latest over-hyped drama plays out, I wonder if anyone will notice that Muller, in his current NYT piece, has foreshadowed his next op-ed (in the ...

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