Scientist says Global Warming is a hoax

Gotta hand it to the Dallas Morning News for featuring this piece. It's not everyday the MSM will give much space to the other side, so you have to pat them on the back when they do.
According to William Gray this warming trend, miniscule as it is, is just part of the earth's natural cycle:

I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people," he said.

He has testified about this to the U.S. Senate. He has written magazine articles, given speeches, done everything he could to get the message out.

"I've been in meteorology over 50 years. I've worked damn hard, and I've been around," he said. "My feeling is some of us older guys who've been around have not been asked about this. It's sort of a baby boomer, yuppie thing."

Dr. Gray believes in observations and direct measurements. Numerical models can't be trusted. Equation pushers with fancy computers aren't the equals of scientists who fly into hurricanes.

"Few people know what I know. I've been in the tropics, I've flown in airplanes into storms. I've done studies of convection, cloud clusters and how the moist process works," he said. "I don't think anybody in the world understands how the atmosphere functions better than me."

In just three, five, maybe eight years, he said, the world will begin to cool again.

He is almost desperate to be heard. His time is short. He is 76 years old. He is howling in a maelstrom.

Since the dawn of the industrial era, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen from about 280 to about 380 parts per million. In the past century, the average surface temperature of Earth has warmed about 1 degree Fahrenheit. Much of that warming has been in the last three decades. Regional effects can be more dramatic: The Arctic is melting at an alarming rate. Arctic sea ice is 40 percent thinner than it was in the 1970s. Glaciers in Greenland are speeding up as they slide toward the sea. A recent report shows Antarctica losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record. The year 1998 set the all-time mark. This decade is on its way to setting a new standard.

All of this is part of the emerging, solidifying scientific consensus on global warming – a consensus that raises the urgent political and economic issue of climate change.

But when you step into the realm of the skeptics, you find yourself on a parallel Earth.

There is no consensus on global warming, they say. There is only abundant uncertainty.

Since the late 1980s, when oil, gas, coal, auto and chemical companies formed the Global Climate Coalition, industries have poured millions of dollars into a campaign to discredit the emerging global warming consensus. The coalition disbanded a few years ago, but the skeptic community remains.

Many skeptics work in think tanks, such as the George C. Marshall Institute or the National Center for Policy Analysis. They have the ear of leaders in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

The skeptics helped scuttle any possibility that the United States would ratify the Kyoto treaty that would have committed the nation to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. (Conservatives object to the treaty for, among other things, not requiring reductions by developing nations such as China and India.)

Dr. Gray said the recent rash of strong hurricanes is just part of a cycle. This is part of the broader skeptical message: Climate change is normal and natural. The divisive nature of global warming isn't helped by the fact that the most powerful global-warming skeptic is President Bush, and the loudest warnings come from Al Gore.

Dr. Gray, for one, has no governor on his rhetoric. At one point during our meeting in Colorado he blurts out, "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."

When I opine that he is incendiary, he answers: "Yes, I am incendiary. But the other side is just as incendiary. The etiquette of science has long ago been thrown out the window."

Dr. Gray has the honor of delivering the closing remarks at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, Fla. "I think there's a lot of foolishness going on," Dr. Gray said as he stood before a bank of 10 TV cameras and a couple of dozen journalists.

Hurricanes aren't getting worse – we're just in an uptick of a regular cycle, he said. But the alarmists won't let anyone believe that.

"The world is boiling! It's getting worse and worse!" Dr. Gray shouts. "Hell is approaching."

The core of Dr. Gray's argument is that the warming of the past decades is a natural cycle, driven by a global ocean circulation that manifests itself in the North Atlantic as the Gulf Stream. Warm water and cool water essentially rise and fall in a rhythm lasting decades.

'I don't think this warming period of the last 30 years can keep on going," he said. "It may warm another three, five, eight years, and then it will start to cool.'

From time immemorial, as common sense dictates, we've had ice ages and warm trends...all before the presence of the evil SUV's. Go figure.

You don't have to be a scientist to know that mankind isn't the cause of whatever warming trends we are experiencing, all you need to do is look at those who are irrationally espousing such beliefs and ask yourself about their credibility.

Is Algore credible? No. Is Bill Clinton credible? Well, that all depends on what you mean by the word credible. Is the U.N. credible? What leftist organization IS credible when they tell us Global Warming is the sole fault of Western Civilization?

Get real!