Posted on 05/28/2006 5:32:49 AM PDT by billorites
IT SHOULD BE GLORIOUS TO BE BILL GRAY, professor emeritus. He is often called the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert. He's the guy who, every year, predicts the number of hurricanes that will form during the coming tropical storm season. He works on a country road leading into the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the atmospheric science department of Colorado State University. He's mentored dozens of scientists. By rights, Bill Gray should be in deep clover pausing only to collect the occasional lifetime achievement award.
He's a towering figure in his profession and in person. He's 6 feet 5 inches tall, handsome, with blue eyes and white hair combed straight back. He's still lanky, like the baseball player he used to be back at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington in the 1940s. When he wears a suit, a dark shirt and tinted sunglasses, you can imagine him as a casino owner or a Hollywood mogul. In a room jammed with scientists, you'd probably notice him first.
He's loud. His personality threatens to spill into the hallway and onto the chaparral. He can be very charming.
But he's also angry. He's outraged.
He recently had a public shouting match with one of his former students. It went on for 45 minutes.
He was supposed to debate another scientist at a weather conference, but the organizer found him to be too obstreperous, and disinvited him.
Much of his government funding has dried up. He has had to put his own money, more than $100,000, into keeping his research going. He feels intellectually abandoned. If none of his colleagues comes to his funeral, he says, that'll be evidence that he had the courage to say what they were afraid to admit.
Which is this: Global warming is a hoax.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Count me and several million Americans among the "handful of skeptics."
LET US BE HONEST about the intellectual culture of America in general: It has become almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion about anything.Everything is a war now. This is the age of lethal verbal combat, where even scientific issues involving measurements and molecules are somehow supernaturally polarizing. The controversy about global warming resides all too perfectly at the collision point of environmentalism and free market capitalism. It's bound to be not only politicized but twisted, mangled and beaten senseless in the process. The divisive nature of global warming isn't helped by the fact that the most powerful global-warming skeptic (at least by reputation) is President Bush, and the loudest warnings come from Al Gore.
Human beings may be large of brain, but they are social animals, too, like wolves, and are prone to behave in packs. So when something like climate change comes up, the first thing people want to know is, whose side are you on? All those climatic variables and uncertainties and probabilities and "forcings" and "feedback loops," those cans of worms that Bill Gray talks about, get boiled down to their essence. Are you with us or against us?
Somehow Hitler keeps popping into the discussion. Gore draws a parallel between fighting global warming and fighting the Nazis. Novelist Michael Crichton, in State of Fear , ends with an appendix comparing the theory of global warming to the theory of eugenics -- the belief, prominently promoted by Nazis, that the gene pool of the human species was degenerating due to higher reproductive rates of "inferior" people. Both, he contends, are examples of junk science, supported by intellectual elites who will later conveniently forget they signed on to such craziness.
And Gray has no governor on his rhetoric. At one point during our meeting in Colorado he blurts out, "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."
When I opine that he is incendiary, he answers: "Yes, I am incendiary. But the other side is just as incendiary. The etiquette of science has long ago been thrown out the window."
And Mount Pinatubo spilled out how many times more greenhouse gases than man does in a year?
Sorry, but you are wrong. There are several studies that prove temperature rise stopped in 1998. They were posted here on FR about a month ago. If I can find them I will email you a link. The fact that the global warming crowd drowns out studies done by reputable scientist and indoctinates even those who know better is no more evident than with this one fact. Believe what you want. At any rate, the global warming we had was not man made but brought on by natural causes.
i think it is the plural of "ho". pronounced "Ho-ez".
they'll dupe you every time.
Well, you kind of need to figure it's a bunch of baloney, if Al Gore has made a movie about it. I mean, come on, the sidewinder is not known for his honesty and true American spirit...
I'm under the impression that there is more than a handful of skeptics, though none of them are in the media or the Left. OTOH, there are fair numbers of conservatives who are believers.
Of course Global Warming is real, why it's already 10 degrees warmer here than it was just early this morning.
Now taking into account that even a broken clock is right twice a day, Do we really want to rely on people like Al Gore to determine the way we live?
Hmm, when you put it that way, who gives a crap about science? AlGore is all I need to know (and I'm not being sarcastic).
/snigger..snort..barf
Sorry, it's a conditioned reflex to his name
Bump
Al oGre is a hoaz!
Aristophanes, "the Knights"
Subjects change, the principle does not.
Thankfully no one believes that the sun has anything to do with "global warming".
long, but interesting.
According to some very authoritative sources, Greenland was just that about 6500 years ago.
not co2 though, which was what i was responding to
Im staring right at the NCDC data as we speak. 1998 was a strong el-nino year so it was warmer than normal, but it doesn't buck a trend. Even in the CRU dataset, while 1998 is the highest temp, it still does not buck the trend.
They were posted here on FR about a month ago. If I can find them I will email you a link. The fact that the global warming crowd drowns out studies done by reputable scientist and indoctinates even those who know better is no more evident than with this one fact.
Sure, im interested to know what studies these are that contradict the bare data.
Well if you want to do a search you can find the articles. You are wrong and the "bare data" is wrong. there has been no temperature rise(on the average) in the US since 1998. Have a nice day.
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