Sentences with phrase «federal hurricane expert»
As a result, in late 2004 one federal hurricane expert, Christopher Landsea, withdrew in protest from the climate - review process at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leading to stories on a dispute over climate science.
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Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.
As one particularly vivid example, when renowned hurricane expert Dr. Bill Grey refused to go along with then VP Al Gore's global warming nonsense at a Gore hosted climate science conference, he lost all further federal funding for his world class hurricane research.