Prominent climate change sceptic admits he was wrong

The verdict is in: Global warming is real and greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are the main cause.

This is according to Richard A Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, a MacArthur fellow, and co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of other climatologists around the world came to such conclusions years ago.