A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting said he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
Dr. William Gray said Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views, Fox News reported.
School officials denied that Gray’s stand on global warming was an issue, and said they are cutting back on media support for his forecasts due to the strain it places on the school's lone media staffer.
"If Dr. Gray is right about the university's reasoning, then it's a prime example of why people rarely get to hear from top scientists who are skeptical of global-warming alarmism," said Stuart Shepard, a spokesman for Focus on the Family and a meteorologist. "Researchers who don't toe the environmental-extremist line have lost positions, lost grant money and had an uphill fight in getting papers published. Such an environment is not good science; it's just plain old hardball politics.
"Dr. Gray is a world-class hurricane expert who has not only been vocal in his opposition to the alarmism, he's also producing credible research that throws into question some of the claims about future warming. There are high-placed activists in the scientific community who don't want that kind of assertion to ever get reported."
