Famed hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray has issued his hurricane season forecast for 2012 and predicts below-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall.
Dr. Gray is Professor Emeritus, Dept of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University and a skeptic of man-made global warming. Dr. Gray contends that the global ocean’s natural Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) “is the likely cause of most of the global warming that has been observed since the start of the industrial revolution (~1850) and for the more recent global warming that has occurred since the mid-1970s.” In his paper, “Climate Change: Driven by the Ocean not Human Activity,” Dr. Gray notes that observations show tropospheric water vapor has decreased with increased CO2, the opposite of the assumptions programmed into climate models, thus, “The predicted global warming due to a doubling of CO2 has been erroneously exaggerated by the [climate models] due to this water vapor feedback.”
Without any real hurricanes to rant about, the media has a new tactic, “newspeak”. This last week a low pressure center off the east coast has been re-named a SUB-tropical storm!