Local scientist calls global warming theory 'hooey'

The Capital Times ^ | 6/18/2007 | Samara Kalk Derby

[dennisw]

My bet is this old goat used the word hooey. I say old goat with affection, this guy is still doing great at 87, I salute him

[pacelvi]

What is your evidence that the consesus was for a flat earth?

[dennisw]

These young punk "scientists" and weather girls are full of hooey!!!!

Reid Bryson received his B.A. degree in geology at Denison University in 1941, and his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Chicago in 1948. He joined the faculty of the UW-Madison in 1946 at the end of his military service as a major in the Air Weather Service of the U.S. Arny Air Corps. His first appointment was in the Departments of Geography and Geology (in which he had been a graduate student before World War II).

In 1948, he became the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology, which has since become the largest and one of the most prestigious meteorology departments in the nation. During the late 1960's, he was active in the university's Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on the Future of Man and in subsequent committees that led to the establishment of the Institute for Environmental Studies, of which he became the first director in 1970.

http://ccr.meteor.wisc.edu/bryson/bryson.html

 

[Tokra]

I'm curious about the word "hooey". Was this ever the scientist's term or was it used by the writer as a means of labelling him "out of date".

DEFINITELY an old timey expression. My dad uses it. I think I'll start using it Some sources say hooey means nonsense, others say it means bullshit.

A website called Mavens' Word of the Day says this about Hooey:

The word hooey, by the way, is first recorded in the early 1910s; it is of uncertain origin but does not seem to have originally referred to excrement, though it did develop this sense much later.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

DEFINITELY an old timey expression. My dad uses it. I think I'll start using it Some sources say hooey means nonsense, others say it means bullshit.

What is bullshit?

[Names Ash Housewares]

Were going to be listening to this end of the world BS for the next twenty year at least before it finally caves in as a bunch of hype. The many that resist the sky is falling mantra will be vindicated one day. But too bad this fellow will not live to see it.

[Obadiah]

Were going to be listening to this end of the world BS for the next twenty year at least before it finally caves in as a bunch of hype.

Ah, you mean like the population bomb hooey that nearly all the screaming liberals and MSM bought into as gospel?

From Wiki:

The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. A best-selling work, it predicted disaster for humanity due to overpopulation and the "population explosion". The book predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation.

[weegee]

Well the court gave the people the right to kill babies and 50million dead later we are needing to import populations to the West.

[SaltyJoe]

http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Issues/GalileoAffair.html

Sounds like Galileo was yesterday’s environmentalist. Fortunately, Galileo’s attention hound tactics didn’t amount to much for him personally. The hype made by anti-Catholics afterward are about as baseless as most other anti-Christian stories meant to scatter rather than gather.

[G8 Diplomat]

This was at UW-Madison?? All-riiiight!

I guess not everyone there is a loony liberal. I almost went there for college, but the liberalism turned me away. Good to know there are sane people there.

[dennisw]

The word hooey, by the way, is first recorded in the early 1910s; it is of uncertain origin but does not seem to have originally referred to excrement, though it did develop this sense much later.

The urban dictionary said it meant BS. I agree with you. Originally it meant nonsense, idiocy

[Wil H]

I stand corrected, you are right, I thought the church had actually ex-communicated him. I do know that the Catholic Church only recently in the last few years apologised for their treatment of him.

[TheMightyQuinn]

There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'

I'm a grad student and according to my advisor, who is also the department chair and an editor of an important journal in our field, if a researcher claims some connection between his research and "global warming" or "climate change", then he's much more likely to receive funding.