William Gray
William Gray
American attorney who served as a federal judge. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in 1966.
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth26 March 1912
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The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.
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We feel the 1999 season will be comparable to the one just past and not too much weaker than the 1995 and 1996 seasons, both of which were very busy. Climatic evidence strongly suggests that we are embarking on a new era of enhanced major hurricane activity.
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We are going to see the return of some of these types of storms. People have to face up to it. The insurance industry has a major problem.
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Won't happen to us. This leg's got more luck in it.
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Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past.
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We do not expect to see as many land-falling major hurricanes in the United States as we have experienced in 2004 and 2005.
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We expect a season nearly as active as this year's (1998),
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We have always believed that the atmosphere will act in the future as it has in the past. This assumption can fail in some years but when applied over a period of several years we find that the atmosphere and ocean does indeed have a long period memory in most years.
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Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.
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Unfortunately, the very active season we have seen to this point is not yet over.
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We're going to be seeing a $50 billion-, $70 billion-, $100 billion-damage storm. Florida is a sitting duck.
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The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.
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These numbers aren't extreme, but they continue the trend in which hurricane activity appears to be on a multi-decadal upswing.
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Small sea-surface temperature changes, there's no theory why they should make for more storms. Observations verify that. When we look back in a global point of view, in the last thirty years, there hasn't been a pick up in storms.