I just watched this video interview on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show (h/t to Poptech)
Despite the tacky caption, it was what Dr. Muller didn’t talk about that was, ahem, the best part.
To my surprise, when questioned on the issue, he didn’t list station quality as one of the things he ruled out. I think my message was delivered.
If you can get past the “genius” lead in part, its worth watching. Video here
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/29/13020337-ex-climate-change-skeptic-humans-cause-global-warming?lite
He can’t be a skeptic if he believes in scientific concensus. Since he seems to support the oxymoron “scientific concensus” he must be just what he says, no longer a skeptic.
Ohhhhh, now I see. He’s in the pocket of the natural gas industry.
(sarc)
Just watching the man’s eyes and demeanor during this,I think they better increase his meds.Otherwise not bad,considering.
OK, now I’ve seen the video. I caught your blank post before the link was there. The other thing not mentioned was nuclear energy. Why should we have to endure a short nasty life with less energy per capita? Automatically assuming consuming less energy per capita is a good thing is in fact quite dangerous.
No sorry,couldn’t even get thru the intro BS.Aren’t we lucky to have Anthony on our side?Thanks to the team for an EXCELLENT job well done.
I don’t watch Maddow. Not even in YouTube clips. Makes my brain barf.
I don’t get it. He admits that correlation is not causation, but then he is off to the races on CO2 reduction.
“Former Climate Change Denier”
If anything the man had to say was legitimate, he wouldn’t have to lie about who he is.
No high speed internet, missed the Monday Mirthiness video, was depressed.
Now I see it’s a good reason to not see a Rachael Madcow video, so it’s a wash.
Nice tagline for the show, “Lean Forward” (said the TSA agent as they slipped on a new set of bone-dry latex gloves, while smiling).
the part about his testimony last year was pretty creepy to me. Maddow getting thrills about a skeptic confessing his sins in front of a tribunal kind of feel…but that’s just me
Why the fear of nuclear? I mean really, here you have a genius who’s afraid to talk about what to do 50 years from now? Clean fracking? Are you kidding? That’s the future? I guess the age of visionary physicists is over….so sad.
When Muller says now “Call me a converted skeptic”, we can say that this is a False Flag operation, since he has earlier said
““It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic — only a scientific skeptic,” he said in a recent email exchange with The Huffington Post. “Some people called me a skeptic because in my best-seller ‘Physics for Future Presidents’ I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic.”
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http://suyts.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/muller-never-was-a-skeptic/
Muller is a publicity-hungry opportunist who speaks out of both ends of his mouth.
The resurrection of Lysenkoism, the perversion of science to serve wholly political ends, the exploitation of science to further political objectives, the false claim of a unanimity that never in fact existed, the suppression of facts that contradict and disprove the supposed consensus and the smearing of sceptical scientists and free thinkers. History tells us that those forces that try to pervert science to serve political ends always fail, it is the damage they do in the attempt that defines their ultimate failure.
Sound familiar? It should because history is littered with such examples and it never ended well, the real deniers are those that choose to deny observed reality in favour of made up political make believe. If the facts dont fit the narrative then change the facts and while changing them attack with utmost vigour those who dare to expose the facts. This isnt science it is a quasi religious cult and it is going to end in tears. History will not be kind to the supposed consensus, those who support it now will be widely mocked and rightly so.
William Martin in NZ says:
July 30, 2012 at 10:46 pm
No sorry,couldn’t even get thru the intro BS.Aren’t we lucky to have Anthony on our side?Thanks to the team for an EXCELLENT job well done.
+1 on that.
Looking at lecture on Youtube he made at Berkley it becomes clear that it is more of a spectacle than lecture. Students attending them don’t learn much.
BTW. Why is he listed as a visitor to the Bohemian Grove?
Didn’t look at the video due to restricted bandwidth while away from home. Read that as too cheap to pay for more.
Muller sure looks like a deranged whack job though in the still. I’m sick of all these people.
Something else Dr Muller forgot to mention: his paper failed peer review and has been rejected.
From http://www.rossmckitrick.com/:
Muller “had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
Former denier, present sceptic?
I would love to see the CO2/warming correlation he said changed his mind. I always said I was a skeptic only because the other side didn’t have enough evidence, and this seems pretty strong for them (much stronger than models in my mind). I am especially curious because I can’t see how it could correlate for this past decade.
At first I was thrown when I heard the Muller was financed by ‘Coke’, but if I got anything at all from watching the clip it is that while I always thought of the Kochs as ‘Cocks’, they are, in fact, ‘Cokes’, as Muller pronounced it.
Sadly the fact this man is getting MSM coverage, allied to his academic standing, will convince many of the uninformed, including our legislators worldwide. These people don’t do their own research.
We are still climbing uphill, people, until the MSM reports findings from WUWT and others on our side of the argument first. Refuting an argument is never as convincing to the man in the street as being given a platform in the first place.
“To my surprise, when questioned on the issue, he didn’t list station quality as one of the things he ruled out. I think my message was delivered.”
The man is in trouble, and he knows it.
I’m still waiting for Muller to explain, in his current media blitz, why his papers haven’t been peer reviewed.
I rarely bother to comment about people’s appearance, but this guy is pretty much everybody’s caricature of the mad scientist. Staring eyes, unkempt hair and tash, dishevelled clothing…if he approached me in the street I’d pass by on the other side. And I’m sure that I’0m not alone.
He does himself – nor his message – no favours by not spending just a few minutes sprucing himself up. Rightly or wrongly, people really do make up their mind on first impressions. And his is not good.
BEST study = hokey schtick science = MANNIAN SCIENCE.
Richard Muller = practitioner of MANNIAN SCIENCE.