"We'll look back and realize how foolish it was"

Prophetic Words from Dr. William Gray, Ph.d on Al the Bore's "Blowhard Smarming" campaign.

Well, gee, seems that Al Gore ain't getting much love for his campaign to mis-lead people about "Blowhard Smarming". I have a problem with Gore for a myriad of reasons, some of which are;

He claims to have grown up in Tennessee, which isn't true, he grew up in DC at a hotel, the son of a prominent politician.

When the Buddhist temple scandal happened, he famously claimed (or infamously) that there was "no controlling authority" to explain his lapse of using religious sites for campaign fund raising.

He also was known and caught using Government resources and offices again for campaign raising.

Mr Gore said during the 2000 presidential race that because of his sister, who died of cancer, would ensure that big tobacco would suffer because of the 'evils' of smoking yet, his farm in Tennessee, even at that time was still growing tobacco to be sold to big tobacco.

So, this guy, who flunks out of divinity school, is not a scientist, is a career politican, somehow claims to be a spokesman for "BS" and is looked upon as some kind of authority on climatology? But if challenged by those who do have the credentials about his claims, poo poos them off saying they are misguided. As I noted in the previous post, Dr William Gray has now come out and said that Gore is wrong and for a lot of the reasons why I don't think that "BS" is happening.

Dr Gray gave a speech at the Univ of North Carolina and this is from the Sydney Morning Herald;

Gore gets a cold shoulder

Steve Lytte
Sydney Morning Herald
October 14, 2007

ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr. William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth. His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

"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."

At his first appearance since the award was announced in Oslo, Mr Gore said: "We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing." Mr Gore shared the Nobel prize with the United Nations climate panel for their work in helping to galvanise international action against global warming.

But Dr Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, 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. However, he said, that same cycle 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.

During his speech to a crowd of about 300 that included meteorology students and a host of professional meteorologists, Dr Gray also said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error. He cited 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," Dr Gray said.

He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science. "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."