Category: global warming skepticism

Oh yes, I did already like Richard A. Muller. He's a Berkeley physicist. Was an acolyte of the late, cantankerous Nobelist, Luis Alvarez, and shares with him a skeptical stripe. One can still get him talking about Nemesis, the imagined (who knows, maybe real) nearby dim star that periodically sends the Sun's distant Oort Cloud comets showering into the inner solar system. He also wrote the clever book, "Physics for Future Presidents." He won a MacArthur award for his ability to see angles and things others miss. In recent years he occasionally noted that he was not all that sold on the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a dire threat. He found quite plausible the skeptics...