Dr Vincent Grey. - another individual (Prophet) involved in the global warming denial industry. Keep up with your religous beliefs guys.
Vincent Gray is a chemist based in New Zealand. He is a retired coal industry researcher, climate author, and founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. He has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University.
Publications
A search of 22,000 academic journals shows that Gray has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change. Gray has published peer-reviewed scientific work on coal, his most recent article having been published 17 years ago.
Primary Affiliations
Gray and the NRSP
Gray was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Natural Resource Stewardship Project (NRSP), until the organization ceased operation around 2008. The NRSP was a lobby organization that refused to disclose its funding sources.
The NRSP is led by executive director Tom Harris and Dr. Tim Ball. An Oct. 16, 2006 CanWest Global news article on who funds the NRSP, it states that "a confidentiality agreement doesn't allow him [Tom Harris] to say whether energy companies are funding his group."
The New Zealand Climate Coalition and the Navy
Gray is a founding member of the "The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition" which was created in May of 2006 with the aim of " refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic (man-made) global warming."
The New Zealand Coalition states that its main goals are:
"To publish and distribute papers and commentaries produced by members of the Coalition.
To audit statements by other organizations, both in New Zealand and overseas, which are published in New Zealand, or are expected to influence New Zealand public policy and public opinion.
And "to audit the forthcoming IPCC report, either on its own, or through the Asia Pacific Climate Science Coalition, or equivalent organization, if one has been established in time."
The chairman of the NZ Coalition is Rear Admiral Jack Welch, a retired member of the New Zealand Navy.
ICECAP
Gray is listed as an "expert" by the International Climate Change Assessment Project (ICECAP).
ICECAP believes we should "worry the sole focus on greenhouse gases and the unwise reliance on imperfect climate models while ignoring real data may leave civilization unprepared for a sudden climate shift that history tells us will occur again, very possibly soon."
In one ICECAP article, Gray touts his position as an "expert reviewer" of the IPCC. He further describes how the IPCC science has been "'spun' to support a global campaign to limit human emissions of [sic] certainb greenhouse gases which [sic] has no scientific basis.
The ICECAP domain name was registered in 2006 by Joseph D'Aleo who is employed by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). SPPI, a prominent global warming denier group, is largely backed by the Frontiers of Freedom Institute which has in turn received over $1,272,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
Skeptical Activities
The "NZ Climate Enviro Truth" newsletter
Gray publishes a newsletter called the NZ Climate and Envirotruth.
NZ Climate Truth provides the following description on their home page: "Vincent is too modest, the content is global in scope and his penetrating analysis honed by years of reviewing IPCC reports is applied to issues arising in the Greenhouse / Global Warming / Climate Change debate."
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Published a policy paper in 2001 for a Canadian think tank called "The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP)." The FCPP has held lunch seminars on global warming with Tim Ball, a well-known global warming "skeptic."
"Expert" IPCC Reviewer
Gray often introduces himself as an IPCC expert reviewer. He says that "I have been an 'Expert Reviewer' for The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since its first major Report in 1990."
He uses this as justification for his continuous attack on the IPCC, having called the panel "fundamentally corrupt," and describing their scientific methods as "unsound." Gray also published a book critiquing the IPCC titled The Greenhouse Delusion. The book describes the panel has having "not convincingly made its case that increases in carbon dioxide levels are occurring and [sic] that increase will have harmful effects."
Although the Financial Post suggests that "no one has been a more faithful reviewer than Dr. Gray," all that it takes to be an expert reviewer is to refrain from publicly commenting on the draft. So just about anyone who requests to see a draft of the IPCC's report is qualified to be an IPCC expert reviewer.
http://www.desmogblog.com/vincent-gray