'The Berkeley Earth Project has used new methods and some new data, but finds the same warming trend seen by groups such as the UK Met Office and Nasa.
'Funding came from a number of sources, including charitable foundations maintained by the Koch brothers, the billionaire US industrialists, who have also donated large sums to organisations lobbying against acceptance of man-made global warming.
'"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," said Prof Muller.
'"This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions."
'Since the 1950s, the average temperature over land has increased by 1C, the group found.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15373071
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So how many independent studies have to be done before the sceptics accept that Earth is warming?
Nov 06, 2011 @ 13:08:49
