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Independent climate study comes to same conclusion as world's climatologistsJeremy Hancemongabay.com October 23, 2011
"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," team leader Richard Muller, previously an outspoken critic of climate science, told the BBC. "This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change skeptics did not seriously affect their conclusions." Muller and his team looked at over a billion-and-a-half temperature recordings to find that the Earth is warming at the rate generally laid out by climate institutions such as NASA, NOAA, and the Hadley Centre in the UK: 1 degree Centigrade (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1950. The study found that accounting for the urban heat island effect and poor temperature data did not change the ultimate results: the Earth is warming significantly. The study was funded by a number of sources including Bill Gates' climate research fund as well as energy-tycoon Charles Koch's charitable foundation, known for giving funds to promote climate skepticism. Scientists for decades have been making the case that the world is getting warmer due to greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, as well as deforestation and agricultural practices. Global climate change has been linked to melting of the Arctic, global sea level rise, increased droughts and floods, worsening extreme weather, desertification, with predicted impacts including increased global conflict, famine, and mass extinction. Yet nations have been slow to combat ever-rising global emissions.
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