There's been a lot of discussion about the BEST report at wattsupwiththat.com. Here are two of the salient points.

1. People on both sides of the 'debate' are POd at publicity hound Muller, for trumpeting the 'findings' to the media before they were accepted for publication in the big-name, pal-reviewed alarmist journals.

2. One the points in the report that was underreported in the MSM is that the next-generation Warmies, masquerading as skeptics, are waffling on the question of attribution; they're backpedaling on the "A" in Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Here's a link to a longish review article that I wrote and posted at hubpages.com. It covers the bare essentials, and it's simple enough that nonspecialists can understand it. I did not bother to mention the BEST report in that article.
tinyurl.com/42q736v

Analysis. The older Warmies, like James Hansen (he heads up NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), who are nearing retirement age, may be safe in persisting with the same old song-and-dance. However the younger Climate Change 'researchers' are beginning to realize that they're on the wrong side of history, and on the wrong side of the science.

The next-generation CC 'researchers' are in a pickle. If they tell the whole truth, their funding will be cut off, and they'll have to find real jobs in the current Bush-Obama Recession. If they persist with the same old fairy tale, they will become laughingstocks a decade down the road, and they'll lose their funding anyway.

Larry's comment: Professor Muller makes grandiose statements to the press, but his data paints a very different picture.

Best Confirms Global Temperature Standstill

Saturday, 29 October 2011 23:55 Dr. David Whitehouse

Contrary to claims being made by the leader of the Best global temperature initiative their data confirms, and places on a firmer statistical basis, the global temperature standstill of the past ten years as seen by other groups.

Many people have now had some time to read the papers issued in preprint form from the Best project. My strong impression is that they are mostly poorly written, badly argued and at this stage unfit for submission to a major journal. Whilst I have made some comments about Best’s PR and data release strategy, I want to now look at some aspects of the data.

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/6cs7hyo

Commentators at WUWT have speculated that Muller intended the BEST study to be a vehicle for a media blitz, promoting the Global Warming urban legend, and his own financial interests. Did I mention that Muller has an environmental sustainability consulting business?

Muller doesn't give a hoot whether the study is published or not. He has certainly poisoned the well. And co-author Judith Curry is not a happy camper.

Koch Funded Researchers Confirm Global Warming

Huge Blow to Science Deniers: Koch Funded Researchers Confirm Global Warming
www.alternet.org/story/152...al_warming

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Climate Scientists Find Huge Increase in CO2 Emissions
www.tomsguide.com/us/co2-gr...13083.html

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