Economist:
Recent findings by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
project (BEST) confirm the warning of climatologists at three
prominent research organizations: Earth is warming up. From
data gathered over the past 150 years, NASA and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US, and
the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in
the UK, independently had determined that global temperatures
have risen about 0.9 °C in the past half century. To
challenge those findings, the BEST team, led by Richard Muller
of the University of California, Berkeley, used a novel
statistical methodology “that incorporates more data than
other climate models and requires less human judgment about how
to handle it,” according to an
article
in
Mother Jones. Nevertheless, BEST reached much the same
conclusion as the other three organizations. "Our biggest
surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the
warming values published previously by other teams in the US
and the UK," said Muller in an
article
for the BBC.
