{"id":1251,"date":"2009-02-21T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2009-02-21T06:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:01:18","slug":"battle-of-the-climate-scientists-gray-versus-hansen-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/battle-of-the-climate-scientists-gray-versus-hansen-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the climate scientists part 3 &#8211; Gray attacks the science"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1252\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"Hot or not?  Are the global climate models accurate or are they full of hot air? \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1.jpg\" alt=\"Hot or not?  Are the global climate models accurate or are they full of hot air? \" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hotornot1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hot or not? Are the global climate models accurate or are they full of hot air? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The science behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or manmade climate change, has been said to be \u2018settled\u2019.\u00a0 The United Nation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/a>, Al Gore, and Dr. James Hansen make up a triumvirate of climate change advocates.\u00a0 Wielding studies, computer models, and various charts and analyses, they believe man is heading down the road to self-destruction of we do not reverse course immediately and do everything and anything to stop what they believe is an unnaturally warming climate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/climate-scientist-knockdown-william-gray-versus-james-hansen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last week we first brought to light a letter by Dr. William Gray, Professor Emeritus of Colorado State University<\/a>, admonishing the American Meteorological Society\u2019s decision to give its highest award to Dr. James Hansen.\u00a0 Hansen is head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giss.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)<\/a>, an astronomer, and a very divisive figure in the global warming debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We continue our analysis of not only the battle between Dr. William Gray and Dr. James Hansen but the larger issue of anthropogenic global warming.\u00a0 In his letter Dr. Gray raises some very interesting arguments about Hansen\u2019s research and about the science behind the theory of AGW.\u00a0 Today we take a closer look at the science as Dr. Gray sees it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Battle-of-the-climate-scientists--Gray-versus-Hansen-part-3\">Get all the details on Examiner.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"525\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Battle-of-the-climate-scientists--Gray-versus-Hansen-part-3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>For all the details, read the rest of this story on our Denver Weather Examiner page.<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Battle-of-the-climate-scientists--Gray-versus-Hansen-part-3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1165\" title=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png\" alt=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside-150x41.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or manmade climate change, has been said to be \u2018settled\u2019.\u00a0 The United Nation\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Al Gore, and Dr. James Hansen make up a triumvirate of climate change advocates.\u00a0 Wielding studies, computer models, and various charts and analyses, they believe man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/battle-of-the-climate-scientists-gray-versus-hansen-part-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battle of the climate scientists part 3 &#8211; Gray attacks the science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[230,736,140,131,229,139,142,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}