Tropical Expert Dr. William Gray, University of Colorado
Dr. William Gray is the leader of long range forecasting of the tropics. He pioneered the technique for long range forecasting, you know the number of named storms we get before the season. Dr. Gray also teamed up with Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center in 2005. The Global Warming debate got fueled by the record 2005 Hurricane Season (see video here), including three Category 5 storms recorded for the first time in a single season. The outrage over storms Katrina and Rita had many wondering if this would be the 'new norm with storms'. Even National Geographic had a cover story the following year titled: Killer Hurricanes: No End in Sight. Think again, says the men who made their lives and reputations on studying all of the reasons for tropical weather. This has been their position long before the exposure of fraud at the Climate Research Unit in Great Britain now known as Climategate. In fact, no hurricanes hit the US in 2006 and 2009. This was among the quietest in the past 15 years. Watch Video: Hurricane season ends with no hurricanes in the US
Here is the state recently published by the Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in Boulder. Also check out the statement made by Max Mayfield two years ago today- December 10, 2007 in response to the Katrina and Global Warming. See more links to Climategate stories below.
Puncturing the Climate Balloon by Bill Gray December 8, 2009
Had I not devoted my entire career of over half-a-century to the study and forecasting of meteorological and climate events I would have likely been concerned over the possibility of humans causing serious global climate degradation. There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination of the western world by the media and by various scientists and governments concerning a coming carbon dioxide (CO_2 ) induced global warming disaster. These warming scenarios have been orchestrated by a combination of environmentalists, vested interest scientists wanting larger federal grants and publicity, the media which profits from doomsday scenario reporting, governmental bureaucrats who want more power over our lives, and socialists who want to level-out global living standards. These many alarmist groups appear to have little concern over whether their global warming prognostications are accurate, however. And they most certainly are not. The alarmists believe they will be able to scare enough of our citizens into believing their propaganda that the public will be willing to follow their advice on future energy usage and agree to a lowering of their standard of living in the name of climate salvation. Rising levels of CO_2 are not near the threat these alarmists have portrayed them to be. There has yet to be a honest and broad scientific debate on the basic science of CO_2 's influence on global temperature. The global climate models predicting large amounts of global warming for a doubling of CO_2 are badly flawed. They should never have been used to establish government climate policy. The last century's global warming of about 1 degree F is not a consequence of human activities. This warming is primarily the result of a multi-century changes in the globe's deep ocean circulation. These ocean current changes have lead to a small and gradual increase in the globe's temperature. We are coming out of the Little Ice Age and into a generally warmer climate state. This is akin to the warmer global climate of the Medieval Period. We can do nothing but adapt to such long period natural temperature changes.
The recent 'ClimateGate' revelations coming out of the UK University of East Anglia are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well organized international climate warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 years. This conspiracy would become much more manifest if all the e-mails of the publically funded climate research groups of the US and of foreign governments were ever made public. The disastrous economic consequences of restricting CO_2 emissions from the present by as much as 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050 (as being proposed in Copenhagen) have yet to be digested by the general public. Such CO_2 output decreases would cause very large increases in our energy costs, a lowering of our standard of living, and do nothing of significance to improve our climate. The Cap-and-Trade bill presently before Congress, the likely climate agreements coming out of the Copenhagen Conference, and the EPA's just announced decision to treat CO_2 as a pollutant represents a grave threat to the industrial world's continued economic development. We should not allow these proposals to restrict our economic growth. Any United Nations climate bill our country might sign would act as an infringement on our country's sovereignty.
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I was a regular reader of NG for a few decades until about 10 years ago. They got so damn political and leftist in their leaning I had to stop. You cannot open its pages without being blasted with such nonsense as you report. What a shame that such a good magazine has been ruined by the leftists on the staff.
Al Gore said in an unterview this week that the core of the Earth is 2 MILLION degrees at about 10 km down. 2 MILLION degrees? Really AL? Hotter than the surface of the Sun?
What are we to make of his other numbers?
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