Muller is a default progressive. That is why he has never been a skeptic of CAGW. All his friends and colleagues believe the same things. So it is no wonder he sees attribution every chance he gets. BEST was created for political reasons, just like the IPCC. The IPCC was the general combined PR arm of various progressive politicians designed to provide propaganda to implement their central planning policies dressed up as science. BEST was designed for the specific purpose of providing a response, which turned out to be preemptive because of Watts’ pre-publication sharing of data.
But the movement is political the science is politicized, and the results oif both the IPCC and BEST have been precisely as designed. But what the feckless “climate scientists” have never realized is exactly how far their propaganda is intended to push western society. They just know progressive polices are all about “fairness” and “for the children.”
But here is where the real progressives, the movers and shakers of the left, are taking us.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz
“In July of 2011, Kruglik’s Building One America held a conference at the White House. Orfield and Rusk made presentations, and afterwards Kruglik personally met with the president in the Oval Office. The ultimate goal of the movement led by Kruglik, Rusk, and Orfield is quite literally to abolish the suburbs. Knowing that this could never happen through outright annexation by nearby cities, they’ve developed ways to coax suburbs to slowly forfeit their independence.
One approach is to force suburban residents into densely packed cities by blocking development on the outskirts of metropolitan areas, and by discouraging driving with a blizzard of taxes, fees, and regulations. Step two is to move the poor out of cities by imposing low-income-housing quotas on development in middle-class suburbs. Step three is to export the controversial “regional tax-base sharing” scheme currently in place in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to the rest of the country. Under this program, a portion of suburban tax money flows into a common regional pot, which is then effectively redistributed to urban, and a few less well-off “inner-ring” suburban, municipalities.
The Obama administration, stocked with “regionalist” appointees, has been advancing this ambitious plan quietly for the past four years. Efforts to discourage driving and to press development into densely packed cities are justified by reference to fears of global warming. Leaders of the crusade against “sprawl” very consciously use environmental concerns as a cover for their redistributive schemes.”
