tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post738731220954527825..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: Facebook commenter, Anthony, nails Richard MullerTenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-67153893624326829052012-08-18T13:54:05.828-05:002012-08-18T13:54:05.828-05:00Muller is certainly an odd character. He's so...Muller is certainly an odd character. He's so blind to himself. Imagine saying his results are "better than the IPCC." Imagine saying things that give the impression that he discovered the wheel. Imagine saying terrible things about other scientists that turn out to be entirely wrong, and then never apologizing.<br /><br />As to the polar bears -- they are toast, and everyone knows it.<br /><br />He is just too lazy or too full of hubris to do basic reading of the literature, so he thinks he's done something new.<br /><br />Can you imagine how a doctoral student would be slammed for behaving in such a manner!?!Tenney Naumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-57066284761396928412012-08-18T11:39:30.591-05:002012-08-18T11:39:30.591-05:00Muller has been a 'Jason', a select scient...Muller has been a 'Jason', a select scientist group that advised(es) the US government on defense in summer brainstorming retreats. They were typically nuclear physicists, a group that was elevated to God-like status after WWII. They have held enormous policy influence for decades. More recently, their influence wained as other disciplines grew in importance (which has been resented). His book title: 'Physics for future Presidents' suggests Muller yearns for a role as Arbiter & Know-it-All. His statements w.r.t. climate research reflect the same ego despite his minor contributions.Jay Althttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11146408415375034447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-19184734418610757642012-08-07T23:44:08.840-05:002012-08-07T23:44:08.840-05:00It appears that Muller is guilty of being lazy and...It appears that Muller is guilty of being lazy and not reading the literature. Fugitive methane from drilling fracking wells has not yet been measured properly, but some informal reports say that it is a lot worse than anyone imagined. I wish this would get published, but it is an extremely sensitive issue. <br /><br />Muller has no hesitation in criticizing the work of others and making outlandish statements about polar bear research, which makes him about as hubristic as anyone could get.Tenney Naumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-75654656447589172652012-08-06T12:36:06.202-05:002012-08-06T12:36:06.202-05:00Richard Muller was one of my favorite professors a...Richard Muller was one of my favorite professors at UC Berkeley. He is as capable and intelligent as any professor I have known. His obvious lack of understanding makes me question his motives. During a recent CNN interview he sounded like a prodigy of T. Boone Pickins, advocating a shift of our coal consumption to natural gas. Recent peer-reviewed papers show that fracking releases 4-7% of the total extracted volume of natural gas to the atmosphere. Methane is 72 times worse than CO2 on a 20-year scale. So the carbon emissions in the U.S. each day due to fracking operations are equally as bad as TOTAL daily U.S. CO2 emissions. So Muller is effectively advocating the destruction of the planet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367966962520006086noreply@blogger.com