Professors: global warming is real - San Antonio Express-News
Dr. Gerald North, Texas A&M University's distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and oceanography, and his colleague Gunnar Schade, also from A&M, both said the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly clear that global warming is occurring.
“The impulse of everyone out there is to kill the messenger,” Schade said. “We have to face the truth.”
There's “overwhelming and consilient evidence” that man-made global warming is occurring, he said.
Texas, Schade said, is headed for fewer cold nights and longer summers, an increase in average temperatures and at least a doubling of record heat waves in the coming decades.
Based on current trends, he said, within 50 years, Texas will no longer be able to sustain the growth of cotton or corn and desertification will occur.
North warned of more floods and droughts.
“Where it's wet, it's going to get wetter,” he said. “And where it's dry, it's going to get drier.”
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As an Aggie, I fear I must defend my alma mater in a small way. These two professors are not true Aggies, for they graduated from others schools, North got his PhD from University of Wisconsin in 1966, and Schade from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, in 1997.
Also, from what I understand, their research is funded by both the EPA, and the NSF. These two are trying to ride the alarmist gravy train. I bet the true Aggies teaching in Agriculture have different opinions :)
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