We are, unfortunately, moving more into the Dark Ages of climate science. This is the vast area where actual science becomes the victim of zealotry for a political movement involving man-made global warming. Anyone who has facts that run contrary to the religious doctrine are branded as heretics and then summarily forced out of the field of science. The latest victim is internationally recognized hurricane forecaster William Gray at the National Hurricane Center:
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.
It is a sad day indeed and we should all be concerned about the growing lack of science in the debate that is affecting us all economically more than environmentally.
