Day3 of the International Climate Change Conference

4 03 2008

This is just a quick note, since I have to check out in a few minutes.

Bill Gray delivered a wonderful presentation today at breakfast. Afterwards I was able to meet him and I had a 4 way conversation with him, John Coleman (founder of the weather channel) and Peter Leavitt of Weather Services Corporation.

Peter introduced me to Bill Gray, and I was amazed to find that when Peter described my project, Bill’s eyes lit up and he said “oh, you’re the fellow!”.

It was nice to know that someone of Bill Gray’s stature knew about my work. Bill went on to quip something that I thought was quite funny. John Coleman asked him if he was ever going to to retire from the work he was doing, to which Bill quipped

“…not until they put me in a box!”

Some valid and interesting ideas have been presented here, and despite all the scoffing by the critics, there wasn’t any group prayer, tobacco booths, or free cans of 10W-40 motor oil. It has been all about science, and science policy.

But those who close their minds and choose to only deal in stereotypes of course won’t ever see that, but instead will just pile on the stereotypical criticism as part of their regular closed mind comfort zone.


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Day2 of the International Climate Change Conference

4 03 2008

Yesterday was a busy day for me. I had a radio interview in the morning that generated so much traffic to my website that it overloaded the server, and I had to defer traffic from it. I spent much of yesterday morning managing that network issue from my WiFi connection in my hotel room.

I missed the morning sessions  and lunch as a result.

My presentation yesterday afternoon got moved from 2PM to 4:45PM so that I could do a live interview with Glenn Beck on CNN Headline News. During that interview I got to meet Willie Soon an astrophysicist and Bob Carter from James Cook University, Australia who were there waiting as well, we had a lively conversation.

The Glenn Beck interview was short, as I was the last one on the show and he ran out of time, and I was unable to complete the point I wanted to make. Such is the way of live television, been there done that.

Overall I was surprised at how many people yesterday came up to me and said very positive things about my work, people who I’ve known and those I’ve never met, which was the most surprising thing.

My presentation at 4:45 was well received, and many people came up afterwards to talk about it. One fellow who got up to ask a question said something I thought was quite telling:

“There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that you’ve pointed out serious issues with the way temperatures are being measured in the USA. The bad news is that the USA has the best temperature measurement network in the world.”

 When I return home, I’ll make my presentation available to everyone on the surfacestations.org website.


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