Global Warming Hysteria "Mild McCarthyism"

Colorado State University's Bill Gray is one of the world's foremost hurricane experts. Read some of his comments below on the current hyperventilation going on about Al Gore and the world's climate. Bear in mind that Bill Gray is a world-renowned expert on meteorology and climate matters:

"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see what a hoax this was."

Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a different fear: a coming ice age.

"Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."

Bill Gray is not the only Denver-area scientist to be skeptical. Roger Pielke Sr. at the University of Colorado also has serious doubts about the science.

Pielke contends there isn't enough intellectual diversity in the debate. He claims a few vocal individuals are quoted "over and over" again, when in fact there are a variety of opinions.

I ask him: How do we fix the public perception that the debate is over?

"Quite frankly," says Pielke, who runs the Climate Science Weblog (climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu), "I think the media is in the ideal position to do that. If the media honestly presented the views out there, which they rarely do, things would change. There aren't just two sides here. There are a range of opinions on this issue. A lot of scientists out there that are very capable of presenting other views are not being heard."

Dr. Pielke seems to be unwittingly accusing the Mainstream Media of not presenting both sides. Okay, he is not unknowingly doing so. He is flat out and in a low key manner befitting REAL SCIENTISTS refuting the CW pervading the left-tilting MSM.
Bill Gray adds on a few observations:

"Let's just say a crowd of baby boomers and yuppies have hijacked this thing," Gray says. "It's about politics. Very few people have experience with some real data. I think that there is so much general lack of knowledge on this. I've been at this over 50 years down in the trenches working, thinking and teaching."

Gray acknowledges that we've had some warming the past 30 years. "I don't question that," he explains. "And humans might have caused a very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from the middle '40s to the middle '70s."

Like a real scientist [not Al Gore] would acknowledge, there just is not enough evidence to make definitive conclusions, like propaganda blessed by Hollyweird and East Coast Chattering Class know-it-alls come to without any background in the field.

Both Gray and Pielke say there are many younger scientists who voice their concerns about global warming hysteria privately but would never jeopardize their careers by speaking up.

"Plenty of young people tell me they don't believe it," he says. "But they won't touch this at all. If they're smart, they'll say: 'I'm going to let this run its course.' It's a sort of mild McCarthyism. I just believe in telling the truth the best I can. I was brought up that way."

Not like phony fashionable Left Coasters and their snobbish counterparts on the East Coast. Both are new versions of Joe McCarthy on the right was fifty years ago. Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss.....