{"id":1940,"date":"2008-04-29T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/colorado-state-university-greenbat-award\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:27:43","slug":"colorado-state-university-greenbat-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/colorado-state-university-greenbat-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado State University &#8211; Greenbat Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"right\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/span>If you&#8217;re not into global warming doom and gloom, you could lose your standing among the best tropical weather climatologists and be cut off by the greenbats at your local liberal university, even though your hurricane forecasts and tropical weather expertise is legendary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/front\/5736103.html\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bill-gray.jpg' alt='Bill Gray' class='left' width='110' \/>Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are &#8220;brainwashing our children,&#8221; claims that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views.<\/p>\n<p>Gray complained in a memo to the head of Colorado State\u2019s Department of Atmospheric Sciences that &#8220;this is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department&#8217;s capitulation to the desires of some (in their own interest) who want to reign [sic] in my global warming and global warming-hurricane criticisms,&#8221; the Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n<p> . . .<\/p>\n<p>Gray contends it&#8217;s all a hoax contrived by scientists hungry for research funding, media professionals thirsting for Pulitzer Prizes and foreign powers seeking to create a single world government.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he says, the warming cycle will soon end, and the Earth will begin a period of temporary cooling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,353023,00.html\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not into global warming doom and gloom, you could lose your standing among the best tropical weather climatologists and be cut off by the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,53,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-greenbats","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}