"Critics' review unexpectedly supports scientific consensus on global warming" Berkeley scientists' climate data review puts them at center of national debate By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times April 4, 2011 A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing view. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a longtime critic of government-led climate studies, to address what he called "the legitimate concerns" of skeptics who believe that global warming is exaggerated. But Muller unexpectedly told a congressional hearing last week that the work of the three principal groups that have analyzed the temperature trends underlying climate science is "excellent.... We see a global warming trend that is very similar to that previously reported by the other groups."" more http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate-berkeley-20110404,0,772697.story?track=rss