Climate Change Skeptic Now a Believer

Washington D.C. - Prominent climate change skeptic Richard Muller has concluded after two years of his own research mainstream scientists are right in saying the planet's temperatures are rising.

He even went as far back as the times of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson – two of the greatest minds of their times – and studied their readings.

While what he's saying is now no different from what climate scientists have been saying for decades, the fact the Koch brothers – Charles and David – bankrolled a quarter of the money is of particular interest. TheAssociated Press reports:

Muller said that he came into the study "with a proper skepticism," something scientists "should always have. I was somewhat bothered by the fact that there was not enough skepticism" before.

There is no reason now to be a skeptic about steadily increasing temperatures, Muller wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal's editorial pages, a place friendly to climate change skeptics. Muller did not address in his research the cause of global warming. The overwhelming majority of climate scientists say it's man-made from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Nor did his study look at ocean warming, future warming and how much of a threat to mankind climate change might be.
Still, Muller said it makes sense to reduce the carbon dioxide created by fossil fuels.

What one should ask themselves however is how this will be spun by the climate change deniers. There will no doubt be allegations that he was paid off by a global conspiracy of scientists. There will be others who say he didn't “really” do the research or he's politicizing the issue. All kinds of claims will be thrown at him and given the fact the multi-billionaire Kochs supported his research only to get another person – their person – saying what they're doing is harming the environment will not help him at all in the near future. So far the Koch Foundation simply stated Muller and his team didn't examine things such as the temperature of the oceans or the cause of climate change and it will keep funding the research.