The Weekend Wonk: Climate Skeptics who Followed the Evidence, and Changed Their Minds

A lot of comment this week on the new video about Jerry Taylor, formerly a reliable climate “skeptic” voice on Fox News and elsewhere – who turned completely when he actually started looking at the data with an open mind.
Turns out that’s not a unique experience.

The Physicist:
Richard Muller made himself a high profile name in the anti-science community by making a number of outrageous and uninformed statements about climate scientists and science some years back.
That’s probably what helped him attract Koch Brothers funding to re-examine global temperature records. To his credit, he assembled a crack team and did a comprehensive analysis.
Spoiler, they found what every other crack team had found before.

The TV Meteorologists:

At an American Meteorological Society event a few years ago, Greg Fishel, a TV Weather caster from Raleigh, NC, came up to shake my hand. Apparently the Climate Crocks videos were an important part of his process in moving from “hard core” denial, to  reality.

Fishel’s colleague, Amber Sullins, based in Phoenix, also started as a climate skeptic, but eventually followed the science.

The Admiral:

Admiral David Titley, recently retired as Chief Oceanographer and Navigator of the US Navy, describes his own journey from doubt to certainty on climate. Key phrase: “What does the evidence show.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R263RT3W-Y4

5 thoughts on “The Weekend Wonk: Climate Skeptics who Followed the Evidence, and Changed Their Minds”


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    adrianvance@dslextreme.com

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