The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study just released a comprehensive global warming analysis report, showing “considerable evidence of a significant increase, more than a degree since the 50s.” These are the first results that clearly show evidence that even skeptics will be forced to accept.
Why is the Berkeley Earth Project different from previous global warming studies?
First: it is independent. No state sponsorship, no hidden piloting, no political pressure.
According to: it is non-profit, it is supported only by donations: the largest (€100.000) comes from a private foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which has always supported 'sceptical' theses on the subject.
Third: it is open source. The results are always available to everyone, the entire data set is provided to the public with the software used for the analysis: everything online, explorable, consultable (and possibly refuted) by everyone.
Bedroom: consider many more parameters than any previous study. It collects records of as many as 39.000 weather stations worldwide, with a database of 1.6 billion measurements. 5 times more reliable than the others, in other words.
What do the results of this study indicate?
Simply put, global warming is a definitive and established reality. Since the mid-50s, the average temperature of our planet has increased by more than one degree, with evidence that is impossible to refute for all the lobbies interested in saying the opposite: at this point, we expect an awareness on the part of everyone. Will he really be there?
Well, probably not. It may be that the 'deniers' will continue to support arguments that are useless and counterproductive at this point, perhaps changing the subject and focusing on the question of whether global warming is a phenomenon independent of human beings or not. Whatever the approach, one thing is certain: the climate on Earth is changing drastically, and this change is starting to have a direct and tangible impact on our lives, which will increase if we do not do our best to avoid it.
Here is the summary chart of the study, which needs no further comments (Berkeley data in black, the results of previous studies in other colors):
