Dr. Gray: "Global Warming is a Hoax"

Dr. William Gray, probably the foremost expert on hurricane science, is not trying to get on Al Gore's good side with his comments regarding global warming. David Harsanyi writes about Gray and other sceptics in the Denver Post:

The only inconvenient truth about global warming, contends Colorado State University's Bill Gray, is that a genuine debate has never actually taken place. Hundreds of scientists, many of them prominent in the field, agree.

Gray is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert. His Tropical Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his criticism of the global warming "hoax" makes him an outcast.

"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see what a hoax this was."

Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a different fear: a coming ice age.

"Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."

Thank God they did nothing. Imagine how warm we'd be?

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"Let's just say a crowd of baby boomers and yuppies have hijacked this thing," Gray says. "It's about politics. Very few people have experience with some real data. I think that there is so much general lack of knowledge on this. I've been at this over 50 years down in the trenches working, thinking and teaching."

Gray acknowledges that we've had some warming the past 30 years. "I don't question that," he explains. "And humans might have caused a very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from the middle '40s to the middle '70s."

You may remember it was Dr. Gray who has been disputing the notion that global warming was causing bigger and stronger hurricanes. The science just doesn't back that idea up, despite the hysterical rantings of Gore and Co. And as reported the other day, there's a collection of kooks who want to fire the head of NOAA and the National Hurricane Center because they won't go along with their flawed science.

I don't think Dr. Gray will get invited to any lefty cocktail parties.

UPDATE: More from Dr. Gray - Global warming not human caused.

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