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Berkeley Earth is a Berkeley, California based independent 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on land temperature data analysis for climate science. Berkeley Earth was founded in early 2010 (originally called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project) with the goal of addressing the major concerns from outside the scientific community regarding global warming and the instrumental temperature record. The project's stated aim was a "transparent approach, based on data analysis." In February 2013, Berkeley Earth became an independent non-profit. In August 2013, Berkeley Earth was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the US government. The primary product is air temperatures over land, but they also produce a global dataset resulting from a merge of their land data with HadSST. Berkeley Earth founder Richard A. Muller told ''The Guardian'' :"''...we are bringing the spirit of science back to a subject that has become too argumentative and too contentious, ....we are an independent, non-political, non-partisan group. We will gather the data, do the analysis, present the results and make all of it available. There will be no spin, whatever we find. We are doing this because it is the most important project in the world today. Nothing else comes close.''" Berkeley Earth has been funded by unrestricted educational grants totaling (as of December 2013) about $1,394,500. Large donors include Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER),〔FICER funding comes from Bill Gates personally, rather than via the Gates Foundation - (Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research )〕 and the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation.〔(William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation )〕 The donors have no control over how Berkeley Earth conducts the research or what they publish. The team's preliminary findings, data sets and programs were made available to the public in October 2011, and their results have been published as peer-reviewed scientific papers beginning in December 2012. The study addressed scientific concerns including urban heat island effect, poor station quality, and the risk of data selection bias. The Berkeley Earth group concluded that the warming trend is real, that over the past 50 years (between the decades of the 1950s and 2000s) the land surface warmed by 0.91±0.05°C, and their results mirrors those obtained from earlier studies carried out by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Hadley Centre, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature Analysis, and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. The study also found that the urban heat island effect and poor station quality did not bias the results obtained from these earlier studies.〔〔〔〔 ==Scientific team and directors== Berkeley Earth team members include: *Richard A. Muller, founder and Scientific Director. Professor of Physics, UCB and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Muller is a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group who has been critical of other climate temperature studies before this project. *Elizabeth Muller, Founder and Executive Director *Robert Rohde, lead scientist. Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Berkeley. Rohde's scientific interests include earth sciences, climatology, and scientific graphics. Rohde is the founder of Global Warming Art. *Don Groom, physicist *Zeke Hausfather, scientist *Robert Jacobsen, Professor of Physics at UCB and an expert in analyses of large data sets. *Steven Mosher, scientist, co-author of ''Climategate: The Crutape Letters'' *Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Physics at UCB. *Arthur H. Rosenfeld, professor of physics at UCB and former California Energy Commissioner. Research he directed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led to the development of compact fluorescent lamps. *Sebastian Wickenburg, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics *Charlotte Wickham, statistical scientist *Jonathan Wurtele, professor of physics *Pamela Hyde, Communications and Project Director *John Li, Energy Geoscience intern Former team members *David Brillinger, statistical scientist. Professor of Statistics at UCB. A contributor to the theory of time series analysis. *Judith Curry, climatologist and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Board of Directors *Elizabeth Muller, President and Chair, Managing Partner of Global Shale. *Will Glaser, Treasurer, founded Pandora Music *Bill Shireman, Secretary "He develops profitable business strategies that drive pollution down and profits up." *Richard Muller, Board Director *Art Rosenfeld, Board Director *Marlan W. Downey, Board Director Former President of the international subsidiary of Shell Oil; founder of Roxanna Oil; former President of Arco International *Jim Boettcher, Board Director; investments 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berkeley Earth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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