Two words Berkeley Earth . The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was founded by Richard Muller , a physicist and climate skeptic for once , I will actually use that term instead of denier , even though he liked to parade around stuff like the manufactroversy that was the Climategate emails you ' ll see why in a bit , to reanalyze the available temperature data , due to the usual politicized ! ! 1 , they ' re weighting different stations to emphasize warming , blah blah accusations . The project was received with great acclaim from the denier crowd . Finally , they said , a completely neutral project with no methodological flaws . Even Anthony Watts , denier mouthpiece extraordinaire , said that I ' m prepared to accept whatever result they produce , even if it proves my premise wrong . Then the results came out . and they came to the exact same conclusion that everyone else did global warming is real and manmade . Their warming figures were in agreement with everybody else ' s . Guess if the deniers changed their minds ? Guess if Watts changed his mind ? Nope . Even though they had said beforehand that they would accept whatever conclusions BEST came to , when the results disagreed with their views . the results must be wrong .