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Summary .   Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California , Berkeley , has long been a skeptic concerning the validity of the temperature trends that characterize recent global warming.   His doubts related to the accuracy and statistical significance of the temperature records used, and to the methods of statistical analysis employed, in support of global warming.   Now, he and a team of researchers have reanalyzed the data, extended the size of the database of temperature records, and developed improved statistical methods to analyze the data.   Their results confirm that   global warming is real, having warmed by just under 1.0 ºC (1.8ºF) since the mid 1950’s. Introduction .   Richard A. Muller, a respected professor of physics, but not a climate scientist, at the University of California , Berkeley has been a long-standing skeptic concerning the reality of global warming.   Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times ...

Summary .     Elisabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times on Oct. 15, 2011 has documented the decreased attention that the issue of global warming is receiving in the U. S. , in contrast to the rest of the world.   The portion of Americans who believe the earth is warming fell from 79% in 2006 to 59% in 2010.   This issue breaks out along lines that follow differences between the Democratic (liberal) and Republican (conservative) parties.   This reduction in importance is so even though the U. S. is a major world emitter of greenhouse gases.   According to the article, many aspects of individual and corporate attitudes reinforce America ’s reluctance to embrace global warming as an important issue.   In contrast, nations of the remainder of the world, including Europe , China , and other developing countries, accept that global warming is an important issue facing the world, and are implementing policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate...