that s koch as in charles and david koch, the conservative billionaires who got that way by inheriting their father s oil company fortune. they re oil zillionaires. while their funding of the project did not come with strings attached, frankly, the koch brothers fund a lot of what happened on the global warming is a hoax side of things. but richard muller s latest study was an independent scientific endeavor and its results are the opposite of in accord with its funder s political positions. when professor muller was invited to testify before a house subcommittee on the environment last year, he reported there that contrary to his previous beliefs, to his expectations, his preliminary analysis showed that indeed there is a global warming trend. then six months after delivering that information to congress, professor muller declared publicly that global warming is real, and he said he was no longer skeptical of the data about which he had once voiced doubts.
this year will be the 31st year of mcarthur genius grants, 31 years. our guest for the interview received his mcarthur genius grant 30 years ago, in the second year that they were giving them out. as a professor of physics at uc berkley, as a senior scientist at the lab, as a physicist, it was a big deal that someone as highly esteemed and accomplished as professor richard muller described himself as a skeptic on the issue of climate change. he argued there were problems and he doubted whether global warming was happening. because of those views, it was not necessarily a surprise when he launched a new project to study the voracity of global warming data, his single largest private backer was the charles g.koch foundation. it provided almost a quarter of the foundation. that s koch as in charles and david koch, the conservative billionaires who got that way by inheriting their father s oil company fortune. they re oil zillionaires. while, of course, their funding of this project did no
received his mcarthur genius grant 30 years ago, in the second year that they were giving them out. as a professor of physics at uc berkley, as a senior scientist at the lab, as a physicist, it was a big deal that someone as highly esteemed and accomplished as professor richard muller described himself as a skeptic on the issue of climate change. he argued there were problems and he doubted whether global warming was happening. because of those views, it was not necessarily a surprise when he launched a new project to study the voracity of global warming data, his single largest backer was the charles g. koch foundation. it delivers almost a quarter of the foundation. that s koch as in charles and david koch, the conservative billionaires who got that way by inheriting their father s oil company fortune. they re oil zillionaires. while, of course, their funding of this project did not come with strings attached, frankly,