Alarmist in Action
Yet another climatological expert comes out against Al Gore.....
"NEW ORLEANS -- Dr. William Gray, the scientist known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster, on Friday called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" for making the Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
"For someone of his statue (stature), he's a gross alarmist," Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference, where he delivered the closing speech.
"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Gray, 77, said....
Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University, has long railed against the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm. For the past 24 years, Gray's hurricane forecasts have become the main barometer; recently, his mentee, Philip Klotzbach, has begun doing the bulk of the forecasting work.
Rather than global warming, Gray believes a recent uptick in strong hurricanes is part of a multi-decade trend of alternating busy and slow periods related to ocean circulation patterns. Contrary to mainstream thinking, Gray believes ocean temperatures are going to drop in the next five to 10 years." (emphasis mine)
As I said here, here, here, here, here and here - there seems to be a cycle to the earths cooling and warming and that there is still much more research on the subject that needs to be done. Nothing new here.
It is Dr. Gray's theory on what is causing the alarmism that is new (to me anyway).
"He claims the current wave of global warming scholars relies too much on models.
"Us older guys that were around in the pre-satellite, pre-computer age, we had to deal with the real weather. Most of these people don't forecast," he said. "They don't live in a real world. They're living in an imaginary world."
Even more enlightening (and I will admit a bit entertaining) is this little tidbit.
"After Gore became vice president, Gray, who says he voted for the Clinton-Gore ticket in 1992, said he saw his government funding get the ax.
"Gore knew what the answer was before we even started (looking into climate change), so he arranged funding to only go to those to tell only one side of the story," Gray said.
He voted against Gore in 2000.
Today, skeptics are left out of government funding and even endure a kind of "mild McCarthyism," Gray said.
"If you don't go along with it (global warming), you pay a bit of a price. There's a bit of mild McCarthyism about this whole thing," he said. Critics allege that skeptics are "all tools of the fossil fuel industry," Gray said. "I've never gotten any money from the fossil fuel industry."
More proof that the belief in anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is nothing more than a secular "religion".
Speaking of global warming....the Junior Logician just started a geography section on Minnesota history. His first homework packet dealt with the recession of the glaciers that covered this state 600 years ago. The first question on the homework packet was "what caused the glaciers to retreat?" His answer was a simple 2 words.....GLOBAL WARMING. We'll see what the teacher has to say about that at the end of this week.
"NEW ORLEANS -- Dr. William Gray, the scientist known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster, on Friday called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" for making the Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
"For someone of his statue (stature), he's a gross alarmist," Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference, where he delivered the closing speech.
"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Gray, 77, said....
Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University, has long railed against the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm. For the past 24 years, Gray's hurricane forecasts have become the main barometer; recently, his mentee, Philip Klotzbach, has begun doing the bulk of the forecasting work.
Rather than global warming, Gray believes a recent uptick in strong hurricanes is part of a multi-decade trend of alternating busy and slow periods related to ocean circulation patterns. Contrary to mainstream thinking, Gray believes ocean temperatures are going to drop in the next five to 10 years." (emphasis mine)
As I said here, here, here, here, here and here - there seems to be a cycle to the earths cooling and warming and that there is still much more research on the subject that needs to be done. Nothing new here.
It is Dr. Gray's theory on what is causing the alarmism that is new (to me anyway).
"He claims the current wave of global warming scholars relies too much on models.
"Us older guys that were around in the pre-satellite, pre-computer age, we had to deal with the real weather. Most of these people don't forecast," he said. "They don't live in a real world. They're living in an imaginary world."
Even more enlightening (and I will admit a bit entertaining) is this little tidbit.
"After Gore became vice president, Gray, who says he voted for the Clinton-Gore ticket in 1992, said he saw his government funding get the ax.
"Gore knew what the answer was before we even started (looking into climate change), so he arranged funding to only go to those to tell only one side of the story," Gray said.
He voted against Gore in 2000.
Today, skeptics are left out of government funding and even endure a kind of "mild McCarthyism," Gray said.
"If you don't go along with it (global warming), you pay a bit of a price. There's a bit of mild McCarthyism about this whole thing," he said. Critics allege that skeptics are "all tools of the fossil fuel industry," Gray said. "I've never gotten any money from the fossil fuel industry."
More proof that the belief in anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is nothing more than a secular "religion".
Speaking of global warming....the Junior Logician just started a geography section on Minnesota history. His first homework packet dealt with the recession of the glaciers that covered this state 600 years ago. The first question on the homework packet was "what caused the glaciers to retreat?" His answer was a simple 2 words.....GLOBAL WARMING. We'll see what the teacher has to say about that at the end of this week.
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