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Posted on 04/30/2007 12:56:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
THE United States' leading hurricane forecaster says global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming.
William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher, also said the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years.
Speaking to a group of Republican MPs, Dr Gray had harsh words for researchers and politicians who said man-made greenhouse gases were responsible for global warming.
"They are blaming it all on humans, which is crazy," he said.
"We're not the cause of it."
Dr Gray said in the past 40 years the number of serious hurricanes making landfall on the US Atlantic coast had declined even though carbon dioxide levels had risen.
He said increasing levels of carbon dioxide would not produce more, or stronger, hurricanes.
Dr Gray, 77, has long criticised the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.
Earlier this month, he dubbed former US vice-president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore "a gross alarmist" for making the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which helped focus media attention on global warming.
Yesterday, Dr Gray said that politics and research into global warming had created "almost an industry" that had frightened the public and overwhelmed dissenting voices.
He said research arguing that humans were causing global warming was "mush" based on unreliable computer models that could not possibly take into account the hundreds of factors that influenced the weather.
He said little-understood ocean currents were behind a decades-long warming cycle, and disputed assertions that greenhouse gases could raise global temperatures as much as some scientists predicted.
"There's no way that doubling CO2 is going to cause that amount of warming," he said.
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The fragile ocean currents were permanently altered in 1968 when an 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 veered off a bridge.
I didn’t know that!
My reference was to the weather channel chick who said the global warming discussion was over and no meteorologist who disputed that should be allowed to work for the WC. Given your post, I’m guessing there are a lot of reasons someone might not want to work for them.
The resulting tsunami alone .... I won’t go there ...
That is because the jet stream moved and was sheering off the tops of storms before they could really form.
I can see that.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Those damned unpredictable El Ninos and La Ninas
The three biggies:
• Ocean Currents • Jet Stream • Solar Activity
If the tiny little area of the planet you live on is to dry, to wet, to cold, to hot, to dusty, to windy, to stormy, you can put blame on one or more of the above three factors of weather.
And Man has no control one way or another on any of these.
BINGO.
We all know the cause of global warming on Mars is the recent introduction of two SUVs to the planet.
Someone tell Michael Moore to get out of the sea already.
I just want to know why Lake Missoula had to flood so much of the west so dramatically:
http://www.glaciallakemissoula.org/virtualtour/lakemissoula.html
Surely Albore should have been around then, and he would have found a way to prevent this catastrophe!!
Amazing that we live on an Ocean Planet where the consensus of the sentient species is that little tiny land apes control the global weather.
Whatever the cause, it’s Bush’s fault/s
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