Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory? | Watts Up With That?

Elizabeth Muller’s press statement in support of anti-CO2 alarmism is extreme:

Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, said she hopes the Berkeley Earth findings will help “cool the debate over global warming by addressing many of the valid concerns of the skeptics in a clear and rigorous way.” This will be especially important in the run-up to the COP 17 meeting in Durban, South Africa, later this year, where participants will discuss targets for reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG)emissions for the next commitment period as well as issues such as financing, technology transfer and cooperative action.

She is strongly implying that BEST’s findings not only support the CO2 theory of late 20th century warming, but justify radical worldwide government action to reduce carbon emissions.

Not a “denier”, and nothing denied | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Professor Richard A. Muller made clear in 2008 that he was a warmist who was happy if some alarmists exaggerated in the right cause

The Africa Carbon Exchange: The Commodification of the Environment | Think Africa Press

With these flaws in mind, the Carbon Trade is what sociologist Nico Stehr and climate scientist Hans Von Storch would call a "technocratic mode" of climate change mitigation: that is, one assuming total knowledge and control of both human behaviour and the climate system. Legal loopholes, limited bureaucratic controls, online security failures, huge uncertainty in estimating emissions and the sheer impossibility of accounting for every carbon-emitting activity testify to the fiction of such notions of control and knowledge. Nevertheless, in 2010, the value of the global carbon market was an estimated $120.9 billion, and some in the Global South are looking to take an active role in the carbon trade through institutions like the ACX.