What is it about astronomers? Carl Sagan and his 'greenhouse effect' and now this:
...For those that aren’t familiar with him, Dr. Gray is a Professor Emeritus of Colorado State University who is best known for his hurricane forecasts. He is a highly trained and respected meteorologist with decades of practical experience in monitoring the earth and its climate. In the letter he points out that Dr. Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), is not a trained climatologist nor a meteorologist. His formal background is actually in astronomy which does make one wonder how he has become one of the primary mouthpieces for anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or manmade climate change...
Perhaps it is because astronomers trained their telescopes at Venus, a planet about the same size as Earth and one that has a very definite greenhouse effect, and the sight made an emotional impression that overbalanced the reason.
Sure, if you have methane and CO2 at the kind of concentrations Venus has you do get a greenhouse effect, but Venus is NOT the same as Earth. The concentrations are extremely high, and there are no correcting mechanisms (like life) to reduce methane and CO2.
It’s not astronomers in general, it’s the a-holes.
NASA’s Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth
NewsBusters | January 1, 2009 | Noel Sheppard
Posted on 01/01/2009 11:15:42 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157266/posts
James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic
(Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’ )
epw.senate.gov | Jan. 27, 2009 | Marc Morano
Posted on 01/27/2009 5:33:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2173112/posts