“Few people know what I know. I’ve been in the tropics, I’ve flown in airplanes into storms. I’ve done studies of convection, cloud clusters and how the moist process works. I don’t think anybody in the world understands how the atmosphere functions better than me.”

That’s great he had some exciting field trips and the scientific community is richer from his research. This statement however doesn’t fill me with faith about his ability to see the forest for the trees.

The only reason I can think of that anyone is arguing about it at all is business. If we all suddenly changed our consumption habits, recycled 100% of our waste, stopped clear-cutting trees and planted two for every one we took down, reversed the acceleration of the already massive spewing of carcinogenic gases and particulates into our breathing air, all in the name of global warming, even if it weren’t true this would be a bad thing? Call it whatever you want. Call it dwindling oil supplies and that it’s going to take whatever reserves we can muster to (try to) develop the next source of energy before we’re all rudely thrust back into the stone age.

Business tells us to “do this, buy that, think this is cool, consume more”. Despite the seemingly genuine smiles and warm, fuzzy stories they do not have our best interests close to their hearts.

By Joel Achenbach
Sunday, May 28, 2006; W08

As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth’s climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback

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, enjoying retirement, 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 laugh is gale force. 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.

“I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people,” he says when I visit him in his office on a sunny spring afternoon.

He has testified about this to the United States Senate. He has written magazine articles, given speeches, done everything he could to get the message out. His scientific position relies heavily on what is known as the Argument From Authority. He’s the authority.

“I’ve been in meteorology over 50 years. I’ve worked damn hard, and I’ve been around. My feeling is some of us older guys who’ve been around have not been asked about this. It’s sort of a baby boomer, yuppie thing.”

Gray believes in the obs. The observations. Direct measurements. Numerical models can’t be trusted. Equation pushers with fancy computers aren’t the equals of scientists who fly into hurricanes.

“Few people know what I know. I’ve been in the tropics, I’ve flown in airplanes into storms. I’ve done studies of convection, cloud clusters and how the moist process works. I don’t think anybody in the world understands how the atmosphere functions better than me.”

In just three, five, maybe eight years, he says, the world will begin to cool again.

We sit in his office for 2 1/2 hours, until the sun drops behind the mountains

Dear Sir!

I a Swedish citizen and reading your comments surprizes me.
What I wonder is if you are true to your self for posting claims like that. Self denail is the word that comes to mind, because you seem like an average intelligent person. You should be able to connect the dots. I´m sure of it.

I have watched a downloaded version of the movie about Global Warming with Al Gore and it is pretty much common sense and not very surprising that our world will come to an end, much sooner than it normally would, due to the combined “efforts” of all the worlds contributions of Co2´s.

It saddens me to learn that the educational system has faild in your country, the gretast nation in the world (in my lifetime). But, every Empire that has ever existed has, or will sooner or later, be doomed to die. If the majority of the citizens in the States continue to believe like you do, and work hard to spread your values and beliefs, Tellus future is dark, very dark. But before that your beloved country will not be spared – mother nature (not God) will show you straight up the end results of global warming.

/ Sorry about the spelling. Doug

I can’t believe they put that out. I want to see this and show it to the extremist on both sides of me politically.