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(Headline) Berkeley scientists’ climate data review puts them at center of national debate

(Subhead) The head of the study, a longtime critic of the global warming consensus, will testify before a House panel. Leading climate scientists worry that the project, funded in part by an oil billionaire’s foundation, has an agenda.

(http://www.latimes.com/la-me-berkeley-climate-20110331,0,2446445.story?track=latiphoneapp)

You must read far into the article to find out that the funding by an “oil billionaire” is a major part of the PRIVATE funding (with no reference at all as to how it stands in reference to the OVERALL funding), and that the study – which will be by far the most exhaustive study yet made – is controversial because not only of the Koch brothers, but the fact that the study was “hyped” in advance.

Apparently, previous studies had not examined the fullness of the temperature measuring devices, but took random places and extrapolated the rest. This study will examine several times the previous number of stations.

I do not deny that the earth is warming, only that it has been hyped for political purposes and any study that tries to study the subject further cannot be bad. Any study that selects stations, extrapolates, then adjusts for various items and further presumed to predict has lent itself to questions, and that is the problem with previous studies.