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Posted on 02/21/2008 12:23:41 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
The controversial head of the Oregon Climate Service -- stripped of the "state climatologist" title last year by Gov. Ted Kulongoski -- announced today that he will retire effective May 1.
In February 2007, Kulongoski asked the president of Oregon State University to stop George Taylor from calling himself the state climatologist because of Taylor's skeptical stance on global warming.
Taylor, who has a master's degree in meteorology and runs the state-funded Oregon Climate Service, has been widely known as Oregon's state climatologist since 1991. Technically, however, the position was discontinued along with federal funding in the late 1980s. The climate service tracks weather and generates maps from its offices at OSU.
"I'm walking out voluntarily -- it's good timing for me,'' Taylor, 60, said this morning. "I'm going out willingly."
Taylor said he believes climate change is a combination of natural factor and human factors. "I don't deny that human activities affect climate change," he said. "But I believe up to now, natural variations have played a more important role than human activities."
Those views didn't sit well with Kulongoski, who believes the science increasingly points to human activity as the most likely cause of global warming. He has appointed task forces of well-known Oregon scientists and business leaders to advise him on climate change.
The Climate Change Research Institute will be housed in the same offices used by Taylor. The Oregon Climate Service website will be maintained by OSU's Caddie Hale, Taylor said..
Taylor said he will continue to work as an independent consultant, with an emphasis on extreme precipitation and precipitation analysis at his home in Corvallis.
He said he has nothing but fond memories of his 19 years at OSU. "There have been a lot of nice, supportive people,'' he said. "It's been fun."
Thought police.
Corvallis is a good place to observe extreme precipitation.
That’s what you get for telling inconvenient truths.
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http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2008/02/21/worship-global-warming-or-be-excommunicated
Worship global warming or be excommunicated
February 21st, 2008 · Post a Comment · posted by mlandsbaum
From Mark Landsbaum
Excerpt: The world’s most intolerant religion? We submit it’s the Church of Global Warming. Toe the doctrinal line, or you’re outta here.
Virginia’s state climatologist, who happens to be skeptical of the global warming faith, lost his job as a result last year.“I was told that I could not speak in public,” said Patrick Michaels, who has maintained that while the climate is becoming warmer, the consequences are not as dire as others predict. “I resigned as Virginia state climatologist because I was told that I could not speak in public on my area of expertise, global warming, as state climatologist. . . It was impossible to maintain academic freedom with this speech restriction.”It’s happened again.
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In both cases, it’s clear, you can speak as a government climatologist - but only if you preach the right gospel.
Note: Sadly, this follows a series of attempts to silence skeptical scientists.
See also: Skeptical State Climatologist in Delaware silenced by Governor (May 2, 2007)
Excerpt: Legates is a state climatologist in Delaware, and he teaches at the university. He`s not part of the mythical climate consensus. In fact, Legates believes that we oversimplify climate by just blaming greenhouse gases. One day he received a letter from the governor, saying his views do not concur with those of the administration, so if he wants to speak out, it must be as an individual, not as a state climatologist. So essentially, you can have the title of state climatologist unless he`s talking about his views on climate?
For more examples of the intimidation climate skeptics face, see: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=04373015-802A-23AD-4BF9-C3F02278F4CF
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Well, heck. Surely the governor knows more about the climate than some guy with a masters degree!
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He will make a whole lot more money in the private sector, not that it's important to him.
Scientists like him who have grit, facts and determination will not be cowed by the AGW community, but he saw the writing on the wall!!
In other news, the Cascades received fifty feet of snow last night. Back to you Brenda.
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