Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley Earth Foundation, discusses his views on climate change and how he hopes we can leave a better planet for our children.
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Berkeley Earth was founded in early 2010 (originally called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project) with the goal of addressing the major concerns of “skeptics” regarding global warming and the instrumental temperature record.
According to Berkeley Earth Foundation, the project’s stated aim was a “transparent approach, based on data analysis.” In February 2013, Berkeley Earth became an independent non-profit. The primary product is air temperatures over land, but they also produce a global dataset resulting from a merge of their land data with HadSST.
After completing the analysis of the full land temperature data set, consisting of more than 1.6 billion temperature measurements dating back to the 1800s from 15 sources around the world, and originated from more than 39,000 temperature stations worldwide, the group submitted four papers for peer-review and publication in scientific journals. The Berkeley Earth study did not assess temperature changes in the oceans, nor tried to assess how much of the observed warming is due to human action.
Since the publication of its papers in 2013, Berkeley Earth has broadened its scope. Berkeley Earth has three program areas of work:
- Further scientific investigations on the nature of climate change and extreme weather events
- An education and communications program
- Evaluation of mitigation efforts in developed and developing economies, with a focus on energy conservation and the use of natural gas as a bridging fuel.
Special Thanks to:
Richard Muller
Peter Cox
Mohamed Eldawi
Ben Vegel
Colin Hinkle
Michael Murray
Christiaan Welzel
Magnus Kristiansen
Ruben Assenberg
Edwin Lee
Dennis Schmelz
Nick Mitzenmacher
Jason Alexander
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