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Expert: “We’re brainwashing our children” about global warming
Another post from guest blogger Rick Neale of Florida Today, from the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando:
William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster,routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming. In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is bogus — and “a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree” that mankind is in danger.
“We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore’s alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background,” Gray wrote.
Some scientists believe global warming will actually decrease — not increase — the number of hurricanes that form over the Atlantic Ocean each year. Last Friday, in the final session of the hurricane conference, a pair of climate experts said rising sea-surface temperatures in and near the Caribbean could strengthen vertical wind shear. Robust wind shear is the bane of hurricanes, as it tends to tear apart cyclones during their formative stages.
“If (global warming) were to happen, that is an effect which should be more hostile to hurricane building,” said Thomas Knutson, research meteorologist with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.
Knutson and Chris Landsea, science and operations officer with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said historic observation data and computer models debunk doomsday scenarios that foresee armadas of deadly hurricanes, slamming into the Southeast. “Any (hurricane) trend we’re seeing due to global warming — and I do agree global warming’s real, and manmade causes contribute to it — really has very limited impact, very tiny changes,” Landsea said.
Lee ADDS: Algore’s lust for money outweighs anything good to be gained by playing ‘Chicken Little.’
April 28th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Look for the Goreaholics to scream that Gray, Knutson and Landsea are “Out of the mainstream” of scientific thought. Afterall Computer Models say they are wrong. How many of the young people in this country remember the acronem from the early days of computers GIGO? Stands for garbige in garbige out. You can make a computer model say anything you want it to say by just changing the assumptions. The greater the number of assumptions the greater the opportunity to manipulate the outcome. Since almost all the “data” used in these computer models uses the SWAG method no one can depend on any of the results they produce. This isn’t science it is politics. Researchers need funding to work. Funding depends on obtaining results that meet the approval of the politically correct funders. So what if the data has to be manipulated to obtain the results desired. No one will know. After all, the computer says the results are true.