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".But, but, it's a Nobel Prize! The distinguished folk that hand these things out are true scholars, not swayed by politics or emotions!
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.
But why listen to him? He
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.
Smack!
"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."
Yeah, they're being socialized which goes hand-in-hand with the erosion of common sense.
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."
I wonder what Gore is invested in these days.
Mr Gore shared the Nobel prize with the United Nations climate panel for their work in helping to galvanise international action against global warming.
Hold on just a bit longer, W, help is on the way!
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.
With the smell of imminent moonbat humiliation in the air, gorb rubs his hands together, smacks his lips, and settles down into his favorite recliner with a large bucket of popcorn. He realizes that it would be nice to discredit the fools now when it would do the most good on many fronts, but he is also patient.
"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Dr Gray said.
By then they'll have gone on to something else and distracted their followers from the memory of all this foolishness, I assure you.
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.
But the Goracle thinks Katrina counts for 30 hurricanes, thereby making him right again.
"The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Dr Gray said.
Except for maybe the hot air coming out of liberal mouths, of course. Better look into this, Gore could be right.
He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.
Except for the fact that they vote, who cares?
"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."
How about an anonymous vote?