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Gore Wins Nobel Prize

October 12, 2007 Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design
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Al Gore won the Nobel Prize today for his work in global warming.  I understand that each Nobel winner gets a cash award of about $1,500,000.  This will come in handy for Gore, so he can pay all those utility bills for his home, which consumes more than 10 times the energy of the average American home.

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    jstanley01October 15, 2007 at 9:58 am

    The night Gore won his prize, I heard an IPCC wag on The News Hour blame Katrina on global warming. Then today I read this:

    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…

    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.

    Then he makes an observation that encapsulates how science is held hostage by politics nowadays:

    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.”

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