# Richard Muller Back to [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] · [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Research and Evidence|Research and Evidence]] **Role:** Physicist, UC Berkeley; founder of Berkeley Earth, the sceptic-initiated temperature reconstruction. - Founded Berkeley Earth (2010) to re-examine sceptic complaints about station data, urban heat and adjustments ⚠️ (dates from memory). - Its results matched NASA, NOAA and Hadley. Muller wrote "The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic" (*New York Times*, Jul 2012) ⚠️ (from memory). - This answers Clack's "computerised composites, designed to maximise existential dread" line.