Hurricane forecaster’s dispute with school focuses on global warming debate
By ERIC BERGER, Houston Chronicle
By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts, William Gray turned a city far from the stormy seas into a hurricane research mecca.
But now the institution in Fort Collins, Colo., where he has worked for nearly half a century, has told Gray it may end its support of his seasonal forecasting.
As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Gray’s forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors’ work.
But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that’s a “flimsy excuse” for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism.
Among other comments, Gray has said global warming scientists are “brainwashing our children.”
Now an emeritus professor, Gray declined to comment on the university’s possible termination of promotional support. … [more]
William Gray says he’s staying put.
See Ken Kaye’s report here: http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/blog/
Thanks for the great link, Howard.
It is aggravating to see personal attacks on great meteorologists simply because they refuse to buy into highly politicized (and very questionable) climatological theories.
Someday I hope there is payback. That might sound vengeful, but I want the people who are messing with the livelihoods of dedicated scientists to know that a day of reckoning is coming. If there are to be Nuremberg-style trials, it will be Al Gore and his ilk in the docket.
Why is the National Hurricane Center in Fort Collins, CO? Because of William Gray. But now they are cutting off his funding because he is critical of GW alarmists. That’s gratitude for you.