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 ...
Bill Gray is the best kind of genius -- influential.
Bottom line: Global warming is NOT a hoax. That man's activities cause it or are making it greater IS a hoax and a lie. Spread the word, y'all. We ain't doing it.
PFLR
I hate it when they do that :^)
Dial up is better for the environment than are high speed connections. Dial up produces less BS gas than does high speed.
The wannabe Marxists are continually searching for reasons to attack capitalism. "Global warming" is merely the latest weapon.
The 1996 telecommunications act authored by his buddy Reed Hunt worked out real well.
Oh, and suing Microsoft.
I know my computer runs faster as a result.
The end result was destoying 7 trillion in stock market wealth.
Well, not all turned out bad-Terry Mcaulife made $15 million from a $100,000 investment.
It's why I will continue to vote R.
The amount of damage these people (Democats) can do is truly astonishing.
I keep asking for the overall pattern of the Earth's temperature over a 50 year cycle 40,000 years ago (and 80,000 and 120,000). I have yet to get an answer.
Is hoaz hugh and series?
Only if you go to a ho house with biguns and order three.
Who? Bill Gray or other guy?
Your post hit me like a fresh, cool fall breeze! Right on!!!
LLS
For the most part, people who would have us believe in global warming are staunch evolutionists who also believe that the planet is billions of years old and has gone through numerous ice ages and came out of them. The day they uncover a fossilized pre-historic Camaro with a 350 and straight pipes under the hood is the day I buy their nonesense.
Wait! You might have to outlaw beer too.
ML/NJ
Nice quotes...
Paleoclimatology can't provide that. The reason is proxies with decent granularity like ice cores have poor correlation to temperature. So while an ice core is pretty good for telling you about CO2 changes over a 50 year interval 40k years ago, so what? It tells you little about temperature. OTOH, the temperature proxies like sea creatures embedded tell you a lot about sea temperature, but have very poor granularity. So you won't find out anything about a 50 year period, or even very much within a 1000 year period 40k years ago.
Your implication is of course correct, a 50 blip of warming like we see today is part of natural variation and it takes unnatural manipulation (i.e. smoothing in Mann's hockey stick) to make it appear abnormal.
Yeah, if we buy into global warming, I can tell you who's gonna get 'hoazed'.
Thanks for giving me the science behind what we know.
I knew the concept but not the details.
:)
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