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</div><div><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And it was exactly this scrupulous and targeted criticism of temperature data and statistical analysis by McIntyre that inspired one Climate Audit reader to hack the emails of climate scientists at the <span class="caps" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.9em;">UEA</span> in 2009.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It began with McIntyre asking readers to submit <span class="caps" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.9em;">FOI</span> requests for information on the university’s confidentiality agreements in a sideways attempt to get his hands on the researchers’ climate data. The logic was that “if they’d sent it to other people… they had waived any confidentiality rights and on several counts they could not selectively send it to their pals and not send it to me,” McIntyre explains.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A few days later, McIntyre revisited the university’s website only to discover the very data he was after: “I noticed a file that was about the right size of a tree ring data set… so I opened it up and read it and thought ‘this is funny, this is the same data they’re refusing’.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">McIntyre’s miracle mole</strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So McIntyre downloaded the data and decided to have some fun.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>I then wrote a post at Climate Audit where I had some fun with it… a mole, I didn’t actually say a mole [provided] this data but I kind of made it. I edited a mole and then I announced that I was in possession of the version that they wouldn’t send to me,” he explains.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>It caused quite a commotion,” McIntyre recalls. Dozens of readers started looking through the website themselves, some of them even discovering exposed passwords.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then, around midnight on 17 November, McIntyre’s phone rang.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the time, McIntyre was in his study next to the bedroom in his detached Toronto townhouse where he lives with wife Nola. Still in his jeans, he sat by the <span class="caps" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.9em;">PC</span>, surrounded by pictures of his children, Geoffrey, Emily and Graham, as well as his four grandchildren.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>I don’t get a lot of calls at midnight, except when one of the kids calls. Usually, calls at midnight are not something I welcome,” McIntyre says.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The call came from<a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/steven-mosher" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(216, 27, 34); text-decoration: none;"> Steven Mosher</a>—an open-source software developer, crucial in the initial dissemination of the leaked climate data—asking him about a series of leaked emails from <span class="caps" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.9em;">UEA</span> which contained McIntyre’s name more than 100 times. It was only a couple of days later that anyone noticed the now-infamous comment “a miracle has happened”.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>My first reaction [to the leaked files] was one of shock,” McIntyre describes. “I felt no vindication, [but] tremendous disappointment, and I thought it upsetting that people had acted this way.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>I felt that I had tried to behave politely. I’d done things the right way, and to have caused this, you know, intense animosity was much worse than I thought, you know, and the coarseness of language and conduct I found appalling,” he continues. “And I just kind of lost, my interest sagged and I didn’t comment on the blog very much.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McIntyre has been known for his more measured take to the climate change debate. Speaking at the Heartland Institute’s<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/denial-a-palooza-4th-international-conference-climate-change-heartland" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(216, 27, 34); text-decoration: none;"> fourth international conference on climate change</a> in 2010—probably much to the dismay of conference attendees hoping for something more spirited—he said:</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="dquo" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em; padding: 0px;">“</span>There is far too much angriness in my opinion on both sides of the debate. People are far too quick to yell ‘fraud’ at the other side. I think such language is self-indulgent and counterproductive.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McIntyre tells us he doesn’t like to use the word conspiracy on his blog because he doesn’t find it “conducive to a polite discussion, and most of the people who use those words are too angry”.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, rather than responding immediately to the leaked information, McIntyre went to play squash the next day at the Badminton Racquet Club for some tension relief.</p></div><div>
<div>bs</div><div><span style="color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Steven Mosher is co-author of “Climategate: The Crutape Letters” and works as an independent consultant in the San Francisco area. He attended Northwestern University where he graduated with honors and BA’s in both English Literature and Philosophy. He left the Phd. program in Literature at UCLA to take a position in Threat Analysis at Northrop Aircraft where he advanced to Director of Operational Analysis for flight simulation. After serving as Vice President of Engineering for Eidetics Inc., he transitioned to the consumer sector and specialized in bringing new technology to market. As Vice president of New Technology at Creative Labs he was instrumental in bringing 3D graphics, DVD, Web cameras and Mp3 players to market. He has subsequently dedicated himself to the open source and open hardware movements, working as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Openmoko, where he championed the FreeRunner open phone and later founded Qi hardware, a company dedicated to creating “copy left” consumer products. He has written and maintains several R packages devoted to analyzing temperature and climate data with open source tools.</span></div><div></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">erkeley Earth was conceived by Richard and Elizabeth Muller in early 2010 when they found merit in some of the concerns of skeptics. They organized a group of scientists to reanalyze the Earth’s surface temperature record, and published their initial findings in 2012. Berkeley Earth became an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) in February 2013.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">From 2010-2012, Berkeley Earth systematically addressed the five major concerns that global warming skeptics had identified, and did so in a systematic and objective manner. The first four were potential biases from data selection, data adjustment, poor station quality, and the urban heat island effect. <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/papers" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Our analysis</a> showed that these issues did not unduly bias the record. The fifth concern related to the over reliance on large and complex global climate models by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the attribution of the recent temperature increase to anthropogenic forcings. We obtained a long and accurate record, spanning 250 years and showed that it could be well-fit with a simple model that included a volcanic term and, as an anthropogenic proxy, CO<span style="position: relative; font-size: 11px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">2</span> concentration. We <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">concluded</a> that the record could be reproduced by just these two contributions, and that inclusion of direct variations in solar intensity did not contribute to the fit.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">We released our <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/papers" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">analysis</a>, <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/analysis-code" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">programs</a> and established an <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/data" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">open database</a> with all the <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/data" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">raw data</a> used in our studies. We believe that now it is our responsibility to communicate our findings, in particular with prominent stakeholders familiar with the reasons for global warming skepticism that Berkeley Earth addressed. Additionally, many programs to mitigate global warming ignore the dominant role that China, India, and the rest of the developing world will play in future emissions; we will investigate and propose new options to reduce emissions in those countries.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">We have several major objectives for our continuing work. We plan further <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/science" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">scientific investigations</a> on the nature of climate change, a major <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/communication" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">education and communications program</a> to strengthen the scientific consensus on global warming, and work to <a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/mitigation" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a> in the places that will be the worst emitters over the next 30 years. One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly-produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades – with a particular focus on China.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">--</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Berkeley Earth team members include:</p><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);"><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/richard-muller" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Richard Muller</a>, Founder and Scientific Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/elizabeth-muller" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Elizabeth Muller</a>, Founder and Executive Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/robert-rohde" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Robert Rohde</a>, Lead Scientist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/don-groom" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Don Groom</a>, Physicist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/zeke-hausfather" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Zeke Hausfather</a>, Scientist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/robert-jacobsen" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Robert Jacobsen</a>, Professor of Physics</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/steven-mosher" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Steven Mosher</a>, Scientist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/saul-perlmutter" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Saul Perlmutter</a>, Professor of Physics</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/arthur-rosenfeld" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Arthur Rosenfeld</a>, Professor of Physics, Former California Energy Commissioner</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/sebastian-wickenburg" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Sebastian Wickenburg</a>, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/charlotte-wickham" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Charlotte Wickham</a>, Statistical Scientist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/jonathan-wurtele" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Wurtele</a>, Professor of Physics</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/pamela-hyde" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Pamela Hyde</a>, Communications & Project Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/john-li" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">John Li</a>, Energy Geoscience Intern</li><li class="drop" style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/board-of-directors" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/elizabeth-muller" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Elizabeth Muller</a>, President and Chair</li></ul><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Elizabeth is the co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, CEO of <a href="http://www.mullerandassociates.com/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Muller & Associates</a> LLC, and the Managing Partner of <a href="http://www.globalshale.net/" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Global Shale</a>. Previously, she was Director at Gov3 (now <a href="http://www.cstransform.com/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">CS Transform</a>) and Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 she was a policy advisor at the <a href="http://www.oecd.org/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Elizabeth has advised governments in over 30 countries, in both the developed and developing world. She has extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and communications, especially with regard to technical issues. She developed numerous techniques for bringing government and private actors together to build consensus and implement action plans, and has a proven ability to deliver sustainable change. She has also designed and implemented projects for public sector clients, helping them to build new policies and strategies for government reform and modernization, collaboration across government ministries and agencies, and strategies for the information society.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Richard Muller is Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, President of <a href="http://www.mullerandassociates.com/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Muller & Associates</a> LLC, and a Managing Partner at <a href="http://www.globalshale.net/" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Global Shale</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Rich has been awarded the MacArthur Prize, the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, the Texas Instruments Foundation Founders Prize, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize. He was named by Newsweek as one of top 25 innovators in the US in all fields in 1989, and featured in Forbes Magazine in March 2009. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 120 scientific articles and eight books, including Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines (Norton, 2008).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">While Rich is best known for his work in astrophysics and geophysics, he also spent over a decade researching paleoclimate. His primary interest was in the Milankovitch cycles, and is the author of a technical book "Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes" (co-author: the late Gordon MacDonald), published by Springer, which emphasizes methods of mathematical climate analysis. He also published a series of papers on the subject in Nature, Science, Geology, Paleoceanography and elsewhere, and was a referee for the National Academy of Sciences on IPCC work. He is now focusing all of his research effort on recent climate, particularly the surface temperature records.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Rich has over three decades of high level advising to the US Government (Dept. of Energy, NASA, Dept. of Defense, others) on science and technology issues relating to energy and national security. He is also an advisor/consultant to many companies on energy and high-tech.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">Richard has been married to Rosemary Muller for over 40 years, and has two daughters, Elizabeth and Melinda.</p></div><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);"><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/will-glaser" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Will Glaser</a>, Treasurer</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/bill-shireman" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Bill Shireman</a>, Secretary</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/richard-muller" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Richard Muller</a>, Board Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/arthur-rosenfeld" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Art Rosenfeld</a>, Board Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/marlan-downey" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Marlan Downey</a>, Board Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 12px; list-style: none; padding-left: 10px; background: url(http://static.berkeleyearth.org/img/bullet-blue.png) 0px 8px no-repeat transparent;"><a href="http://berkeleyearth.org/team/jim-boettcher" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none;">Jim Boettcher</a>, Board Director</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">=</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">LLNL</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(53, 52, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Berkeley Earth is collaborating with </span><a href="http://www.future500.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 93, 169); text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;">Future 500</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to engage and communicate with a broad array of stakeholders in the United States and abroad, so as to align key stakeholders on the science of climate change and on the most feasible paths to mitigate global warming. One area of focus is the advocacy of clean natural gas standards in China; we need not only standards, but incentives for China to produce natural gas cleanly and migrate away from coal. Industry can help China’s fledgling shale gas production, facilitating and expediting its development while at the same time helping to ensure high standards and best practices; while the NGO and environmental communities can provide critical input on, and potential enforcement of, clean natural gas standards.”</span></p></div><div>==</div></div>