Posted on 07/03/2007 10:13:22 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team
No One Really Knows on Global Warming A Small Report from One of the Founders of Doppler Radar By MythMan J Published Jul 01, 2007
Associated Content asked us to 'ask local experts about local climate-change due to global-warming,' and I could think of no better expert than KWTV Weather's Gary England.
What evidence is there of climate change due to global-warming in the central Oklahoma
He replied:
"I have to answer it this way.
"The climate has always been changing and it will most likely always continue to change. In the distant past, we have been much colder than we are now and we have been much warmer than we are now. And all of that happened many times without humans.
"Recently we ended a two year drought and it has been replaced with significant, long duration rains. Is all of this a result of global warming? Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. You see, no one really knows. If they say they do, I suggest that person is confused at best or has an agenda at the worst.
"An examination of ice core data is frequently used as proof that CO2 heats the atmosphere. A close examination of that data shows that the air temperature went up first and then the CO2 went up. Mars is loosing pole ice faster that earth is loosing the same. As someone said recently, "It's the Sun stupid!" Recent research suggests that the activity of our Sun combined with cosmic radiation from far outside our galaxy interact with our atmosphere to produce effects never dreamed of a few years ago. Is anything or everything in this paragraph correct? No body really knows.
Regards, Gary"
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that makes too much sense!
tv-morons want a more stupid answer.
GW is today’s version of Geo-centric universe theory.......
Someone needs to send this off to Newsweek, who did a poll asking which of the three (A: SUVs, B: Rice Paddies C: Sun-Solar Activity) doesn’t contribute to global warming. According to the authors, the correct answer was C.
In fact, the thread was on here yesterday for those who want to see it.
Somebody needs a little rehab time...
Dammit, he was doing fine until this sentence. Then all credibility was dashed.
Dammit, he was doing fine until this sentence. Then all credibility was dashed.
If this guy is the inventor of doppler radad (which I doubt) then he is 100 yrs old.
In cases like this, I blame the editors and/or proofreaders.
When you let them loose, you always loose it.
Your noose knows.
Doppler radar is rather new in its use apart from ordinary radar but has no single inventor; Oklahoma City was the first place to use it extensively and even had a fully functioning unit in the 1980s before the FAA Academy right down the road became so equipped.
BUMP!
When you let them loose, you always loose it.
Your noose knows.
We need to develop a nose for noose.
And the big news is "Losers use Loose as a verb."
O the humanity-The cruelties of a spell checker!
Wait! I have the answer! (putting on tin foil)..The editors are usually liberal. They sabotaged the Climate Change Heretic!
Don’t get me started on led, lead...
Q: Being a meteorologist requires knowing advancing technology. How much involvement have you had in helping to advance the field?A. Some. Back in 1978, when you guys weren’t even a whisper in anybody’s imagination, I think, I was following the research at the severe storm center in Norman – they were working on Doppler radar. There used to be big large radars all up near the Arctic Circle and they would intercept any attack from Russia coming across the North Pole. So they took one of those huge radars – huge antennae – took it down to Norman and started to experiment with it. It was the first Doppler radar. So I following research and then when they did their test, it was obvious that it was going to be much better than the conditional radar. So in ’78 I found a company called Enterprise Electronics and asked them if they could build us a Doppler radar, and the reaction, as I recall, was that they had never thought about that. So, to make a long story short, I got with the people who owned the station, the Griffins, and talked them into – this was a long time ago – $250,000 was a huge amount of money – into developing the world’s first commercial Doppler radar. We got it in ’81 and in ’82, after I learned to use it, we issued the first public Doppler warning in history on television. That was March 1982. A tornado hit Ada and killed one person. So we didn’t invent Doppler. Doppler’s been around a long time, but we moved ahead with the private end of the business, the commercial end of the business, television. So after we did it, then it spread across the country. And in ’90 or ’91 we developed the little map you see in the corner of your screen called First Warning. But what we used to do, we had a red piece of paper and had an Oklahoma map, and if there was tornado warning for Oklahoma County, you took an Exacto Knife and you cut out Oklahoma County and put it on there and put a camera on it. And that popped up on your screen. So when computers became a little more popular, ’90 or ’91, we created a program called First Warning, and a little map pops up on the screen and runs a crawl. That was the first one of those that ever existed and we sold those around the country and the station made a lot of money on it. About the same time or shortly thereafter – I don’t know which one came first – we did the storm projection. The way we had done it forever, it seemed like, it this were a pencil, that’s 30 miles on the radar, and you’d figure it would be there in three hours. We were pretty good at guessing. Until we created the program that takes in where the storm is, what speed it’s moving, what direction its going, it projects out, and then you see the towns and the time of arrival will come up on the side of your screen or on the bottom of the screen.
Good find, but I hope he talks better than he obviously writes.
He must be a real looser.
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