Gore is full of hot air

According to this hurricane expert:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.

"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech.

Doesn't matter if Gore just happens to have science on his side, Dr. Gray. I believe you are the one filled with wind, sir.

Kerry Emanuel, an MIT professor who had feuded with Gray over global warming, said Gray has wrongly "dug (his) heels in" even though there is ample evidence that the world is getting hotter.

Update: Bryan at Why Now? has more:

I’m well aware of Dr. Gray and his work. For years he provided some of the best predictions for tropical weather that were available. He built an excellent model based on the information he had, and made his name on that model. The problem is that the model doesn’t seem to work anymore. The assumptions on which the model is based are now untrustworthy.

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Dr. Gray’s model is not working, and is not likely to work unless changes are made to reflect the changes in the global climate, changes that are visible in lost sea ice and melting glaciers.

Update 4/9: Sinfonian of Blast Off! has this reaction:

Gray's views are becoming more and more isolated as the scientific evidence for global warming mounts. Clearly, any so-called expert who compares Al Gore's "fanaticism" to that of Hitler has more than a few screws loose. And yet the media, whom he attacks for their story-making, continue to publish the piss-poor prognostications that he proffers from his lab in Fort Collins, Colo., a location that, as you all know, is notorious for hurricanes. In fact, last year he had to downgrade his prediction twice during the hurricane season, which is kind of like betting on the other team at halftime when your team is down by four touchdowns.