scientists somehow indebted to corporate grants or consulting contracts, who spew nonsense about climate change and say it's science. For example, in the following article, among the corporatist scientists saying hurricanes are reduced by global warming is a certain Gary Sharp of the fictitious Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study. THis insane study compares 1990-1998 with other decades which is ridiculous because the current cycle of more hurricanes started
in 1995, completely negating the validity of the reduction claim! They are only putting 3 years of the heavy cycle into their chart. This is typical of how the oil companies fudge the data. After all they have a lot of money at stake.-snip-
"We suggest that natural variability of storminess is the cause of Florida's recent hurricane disasters. In such times there is an emotional tendency to pin blame somewhere," they wrote.
The scientists who generated that letter included Dr James O'Brien, professor of meteorology & oceanography at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University;
Dr Gary Sharp, scientific director at the Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study; Dr Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri - Columbia; Dr David Legates, associate professor of climatology at the University of Delaware; and George Taylor, Oregon State climatologist.
George Taylor's perspective is outlined more completely in a piece on Tech Central Station, in which he says the "busy hurricane year in the Atlantic" has nothing to do with global warming.
Mr Taylor shows through a chart based on data from the National Hurricane Center that hurricanes have decreased, generally, over time -- and that, on balance, they are certainly not getting any stronger.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=10203&cid=3&cname=TechnologyIt turns out Gary Sharp is a biology expert, a tuna expert! There are so few scientists willing to make this stuff up for the corporations, they have to come up with characters like Gary Sharp.
http://sharpgary.org/Resume.htmlNo doubt the guys in the real universities have fat corporate research grants to keep them quiet. This is just more Corporatist PR mind-control. Don't let them hypnotize you with the swirling BS.