{"id":861,"date":"2009-12-05T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2014-04-05T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T23:36:40","slug":"december-5-2009-dr-william-graydr-jim-slusser-tim-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"December 5, 2009 &#8211; Dr. William Gray\/Dr. Jim Slusser &#8211; Tim Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Show Archive-Podcast \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205091.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 1 <\/a><\/strong><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205092.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 2<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205092.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205093.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> Hour 3<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205093.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8211;<\/a> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archives2009.gcnlive.com\/Archives2009\/dec09\/AmerikaNow\/1205094.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Dr. William Gray<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-862\" style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-862\" title=\"Dr Bill Gray\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Dr-Bill-Gray-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bill Gray\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bill Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gray is skeptical of current theories of human-induced global warming, which he says is supported by scientists afraid of losing grant funding<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-BBC-3\"><span>[<\/span>4<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> and promoted by government leaders and environmentalists seeking\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"World government\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_government\">world government<\/a>.<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-tempest-4\"><span>[<\/span>5<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> He believes that humans are not responsible for the warming of the earth and has stated that &#8220;We&#8217;re brainwashing our children.&#8221;<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-SMH-5\"><span>[<\/span>6<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> He asked, &#8220;How can we trust climate forecasts 50 and 100 years into the future (that can\u2019t be verified in our lifetime) when they are not able to make shorter seasonal or yearly forecasts that could be verified?&#8221;<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-6\"><span>[<\/span>7<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Gray said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error. He cites statistics showing that there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperature, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed.<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-SMH-5\"><span>[<\/span>6<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Gray does not say there has not been any warming, but states &#8220;I don&#8217;t question that. 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 &#8217;40s to the middle &#8217;70s.&#8221;<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-chill-7\"><span>[<\/span>8<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">According to an earlier interview reported by Joel Achenbach, Gray had similarly said that the current warming in the past decades is a natural cycle, driven by a global\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"Ocean current\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_current\">ocean circulation<\/a> that manifests itself in the North\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"Atlantic Ocean\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\">Atlantic Ocean<\/a> as the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"Gulf Stream\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulf_Stream\">Gulf Stream<\/a>.<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-tempest-4\"><span>[<\/span>5<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">In a December 2006 interview with David Harsanyi of\u00a0<em><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"The Denver Post\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Denver_Post\">The Denver Post<\/a><\/em>, Gray said, &#8220;They&#8217;ve been brainwashing us for 20 years, starting with the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"Nuclear winter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_winter\">nuclear winter<\/a> and now with the global warming. This scare will also run its course. In 15\u201320 years, we&#8217;ll look back and see what a hoax this was.&#8221; In this interview, Gray cites the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\" title=\"Global cooling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_cooling\">global cooling<\/a> article in Newsweek from 1975 as evidence that such a scare has happened in the past.<sup><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #002bb8; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_M._Gray#cite_note-chill-7\"><span>[<\/span>8<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">In 2006, Gray predicted a cooling trend by 2009-2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/uvb.nrel.colostate.edu\/UVB\/publications\/jimsluss_cv_0304.html\">Jim Slusser<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\"><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1994: Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. Nitrogen Oxides in the Arctic Stratosphere: Implications for Ozone Abundances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1980: M. A. in Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Target Thickness Effects of Chlorine Ions at 49.5 MeV on Germanium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1977: B. S. in Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia; min-height: 15.0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\"><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">2002 &#8211; present: Director and Senior Research Scientist UVB Radiation Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1999 &#8211; 2002: Director and Research Scientist UVB Radiation Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1996 &#8211; 1999: Research Scientist UVB Radiation Monitoring and Research Program, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1994 &#8211; 1996: Research Associate Centre for Atmospheric Science, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1994: Research Associate National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Lauder, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1984-1987: Design Engineer Atlas Electric Devices, Chicago, IL. Released to production an outdoor temperature stabilized 340 nm UV filter radiometer. Supervised the electronic, optical,and mechanical design and wrote the calibration procedure. Released to production a digital 100 Ohm Pt temperature sensor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">1980-1984: Physics Lab Director Loyola University of Chicago, IL. Trained and supervised undergraduate teaching assistants. Wrote experiments and designed laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n<h3>Tim Alexander &#8211; Tim Earl of Stirling <a href=\"http:\/\/europebusines.blogspot.com\/\">&#8211; Blog &#8211;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-863\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-863\" title=\"Lord Stirling\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lord-Stirling-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Stirling - Tim Alexander\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Stirling - Tim Alexander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hold several ancient Scottish titles, Earl of Stirling, Viscount of Canada, Viscount of Stirling, Lord Alexander of Tulibody (1630), Lord Alexander of Tulibody (1633), etc., Chief of Clan Alexander, I also hold several honorific old Canadian great offices-of-state: Lord Lieutenant and Governor of Canada, Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia, Lord Lieutenant of Nova Scotia, Lt.-Gen. of Nova Scotis (first Lord Stirling was founder of English speaking Canada in the early 1600s). I hold 3 degrees: B.Sc. in Pol. Sc. &amp; History; M.A. in European Studies; B.Sc. in Education. I have worked on 3 addtional degrees: M.T.S. (theology); LL.B. (English Law); M.S. (Criminal Justice). I am former Scottish Editor at Burke&#8217;s Peerage in London. I also hold several Scots\/Canadian feudal titles. I am a widower. I have a published book, CASH FOR PEERAGES: THE SMOKING GUN, www.lulu.com\/content\/953682 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show Archive-Podcast \u00a0Hour 1 &#8211; Hour 2 &#8211; Hour 3 &#8211; Hour 4 Dr. William Gray Gray is skeptical of current theories of human-induced global warming, which he says is supported by scientists afraid of losing grant funding[4] and promoted by government leaders and environmentalists seeking\u00a0world government.[5] He believes that humans are not responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[105,104,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-show_archives","7":"category-guests","8":"tag-climategate","9":"tag-global-warming","10":"tag-h1n1","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}