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LA Times
Neela Banerjee
7/29/12

Koch-funded climate change skeptic reverses course

Former climate change skeptic Richard A. Muller, in a New York Times op-ed,
stepped back from his earlier dismissal of global warming. (Los Angeles Times / March 30, 2011)

WASHINGTON – The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and
emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.

This, according to Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley,
MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project.

Never mind that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
and hundreds of other climatologists around the world came to such conclusions years ago.
The difference now is the source: Muller is a long-standing, colorful critic
of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded
by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its
libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch,
has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate change.
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