a new study finds global warming is real. and that the science behind it is not impacted by bias, bad data, or cities that act as heat islands. the existence of global warming is beyond dispute now. we have closed the last remaining questions on that. muller s study is getting a lot of attention because it was funded in part by a foundation backed by charles and david koch. they are oil billionaires and climate change deniers. today, no one can deny that extreme weather is here to stay. that was last november. that was a bombshell. now here s another. look at this from the new york times this weekend. richard muller writes, call me a converted skeptic. three years ago, i identified problems inprieveiate climate studies that threw doubt on global warming. last year, following an intensive research effort, i concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. i m now going a step further.
with strings attached, frankly, the koch brothers do fund a lot on what happens on the global warming is a hoax side of things. but richard muller s latest study was an independent scientific endeavor, and the results are the opposite of of in accord with the 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. a new study finds global warming is real and that the science behind it is not impacted by bias, bad data, or cities that act as heat islands. the existence of global warming, i think, is pretty much beyond dispute now.
that makes sense. if the genius award recognizes people who show great potential. the idea is that they will get to be famous later. this year will be the 31st year of mcarthur genius grants, 31 years. our guest for the interview received his grant 30 years ago in the second year they were giving them out. as a professor of physics at uc berkley, as a senior scientist at the lab, as a fiphysicist, i 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.
way to do it without it causing earthquakes and lighting our drinking water on fire exactly. but i don t think that s hard. it requires more than $3 million fines. but clean fracking, the technology there is something which i think is achievable, and it s something that we really have to aim at, because nothing else can be afforded by the poor countries. unfortunately, china is already, by the end of this the year, producing twice the carbon dioxide of the united states. and it s growing very, very rapidly. so we have to come up with a technology, a technology that can be afforded by the developing world. professor richard muller of the berkly earth surface temperature at uc berkeley, thank you very much for joining us tonight and being populist enough in your approach to this position that you did it in an op-ed in the new york times that everybody could read. thank you, sir. look at those toys. insurance must be expensive.
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.