Richard Muller: 'shale gas technology should be advanced as rapidly as possible'

by Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, University of Califoria at Berkeley Some oppose shale gas because it is a fossil fuel, a source of carbon dioxide. Some are concerned by…

Richard Muller: Why every serious environmentalist should favour fracking

This opinion should create quite a stir amongst enviros. – Anthony Air pollution is a far more pressing problem – particularly for emerging economies such as China and India –…

Richard Muller cozying up to Bill Clinton – but there's good news too

Bill Clinton Praises His New Climate Change Hero Excerpt: I happened to be sitting next to Dr. Muller last week, and although he was whisked backstage by some big secret…

A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – "What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice"

Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece – “The Conversion…

The Waxman-Markey Circus is coming to town – Dr. Richard Muller to showcase BEST under the bigtop

You have to laugh at the dueling statements in this circus event, its almost like a fire and brimstone speech from Rep. Edward Markey, who thinks this will be the…

Scientific American's interview with Dr. Richard Muller

Scientific American has an interview in “Science Talk” with Dr. Richard Muller, who is spokesman for the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. I enjoyed the photograph, particularly for the…

The Full PBS Newshour interview with Watts, Muller, Curry and others

TRANSCRIPT from PBS.org a link to video follows JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to the debate over the magnitude of climate change, its impact, and the human role in it. Typically, the…

Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory?

Guest post by Alec Rawls Here is the puzzle, as noted by Nigel Calder and others: how can BEST insist that a modicum of additional evidence of late 20th century…

Nature pans BEST and Muller PR antics, prints letter from Dr. Singer

Scientific climate Nature 478, 428 (27 October 2011) doi:10.1038/478428a Published online 26 October 2011 Results confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review. excerpts: … Of course,…

Real Climate pans BEST and Muller

In a shocking development that may represent a singularity, I find myself in agreement* with parts of an opinion piece posted on Real Climate today called Berkeley Earthquake Called Off.…

Pielke Sr. on the Muller testimony

Comments On The Testimony Of Richard Muller At the United States House Of Representatives Committee On Science, Space And Technology By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. First, as posted on my…

Global Man-Made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2021: BP Data

Every summer BP publish their statistical review of world energy.

Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2020: BP data

Although they hesitated for a moment as a result of COVID, it is clear that CO2 emissions are continuing to grow in the Developing World and they can expected to…

A 2021 Index to Willis’s Posts

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s February 3rd, 2021. I hadn’t updated my index since 2018, so I decided to do so. Not an easy task, but I beat it…

Update: Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2019, BP data

Introduction Every June BP publish their statistical review of world energy. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html One element of their comprehensive set of spreadsheets is a table of CO2 emissions by world countries since…

Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2018: BP data

From edmhdotme 2018 Global CO2 emissions The following calculations and graphics are based on information on worldwide CO2 emissions published by BP in June 2019 for the period from 1965…

Oreskes, Harvard and the Destruction of Scientific Revolutions

Guest post by Bradley Keyes consensus (kənˈsɛnsəs) — n. general or widespread agreement (esp. in the phrase consensus of opinion ) usage Since ‘consensus’ refers to a collective opinion, the…

“Deep Isolation”: The Solution to High Level Nuclear Waste?

Guest commentary by David Middleton Hat tip to Dr. Willie Soon The Deep Isolation concept is a proposal by Dr. Richard Muller (of BEST “fame”) and his wife daughter, Elizabeth Muller.  The…

BP data analysis: Global CO2 emissions 1965 – 2017

2017 Global CO2 emissions Guest essay by Ed Hoskins The following calculations and graphics are based on information on worldwide CO2 emission levels published by BP in June 2018 for…

Stacking Up Volcanoes

  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at end] As readers of my posts know, I’ve held for many years that there are a variety of emergent phenomena that…

The Rise and Fall of Central England Temperatures – help needed to find missing data

Guest essay by Tony Brown This article examines the continued cooling of CET this century Looks at a similar scenario of regional cooling in America Examines CET related urbanisation issues,…

A New Index to Willis’s Posts

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, my old index to my posts was out of date, and I finally got tired of not being able to find things that I’ve…

Putting the Brakes on Satellite Acceleration

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I discussed acceleration in the tide gauge records in a previous post. However, people are also claiming that either there is acceleration in the satellite…

Response to the New York Times primer on climate change: ‘Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change’

Guest essay by Lance Wallace For several months, the New York Times has been running a permanent feature on climate change. They direct their readers to this feature with the…