Global Warming - us, or <sinister background music> something else?
In summary, if you haven't go time to read this story in full:
1) global warming is happening;
2) it's cyclical....not human.
Feck, imagine what the greenies will say when we slip into the next cooling cycle? "Burn more coal/buy more SUVs/buy more cows (delete as appropriate)", "China is the earth's saviour".
Believe what ya like...I happen to think that this guy is at least as credible as all of the other so called experts on this subject.
Foremost Weather Scientist Mocks Gore Film
A pioneer in seasonal hurricane forecasts says the theory former Vice President Al Gore advanced to help him share a Nobel Peace Prize was "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works. "A pioneer in seasonal hurricane forecasts says the theory former Vice President Al Gore advanced to help him share a Nobel Peace Prize was "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works. "Dr. William Gray, one of the world's foremost meteorologists, last week told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth. "We're brainwashing our children," said Dr. Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie ["An Inconvenient Truth"] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous. "We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing," he added. Mr. Gore and the United Nations climate panel shared the award. His film has also won several awards, including an Academy Award. Dr. Gray, however, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures - related to the amount of salt in ocean water - was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place. That same cycle, he said, meant a period of cooling would begin soon and last for several years. "We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was" Dr Gray said. Alternate periods of global warming and cooling have appeared throughout the history of measured weather patterns, Dr. Gray said, citing statistics showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperatures, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed. "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," he said. "It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."(c) 2007 Newsroom.
Make sure your kids get both sides of the story before making up their minds.
It's back..."Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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