American physicist at UC Berkeley who founded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project — originally as a skeptical reanalysis of climate data, which ended up confirming the consensus on human-caused warming — and is known for his willingness to change his views based on evidence.
Provides the most epistemically credible climate change confirmation story — a genuine skeptic who designed his own reanalysis to check the mainstream results and came back confirming them — making him the most persuasive figure for climate-skeptical audiences who distrust establishment science.
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