Pioneer of climatology dies at 88

[Duke Nukum]

Pioneer of climatology dies at 88

June 12, 2008

by Terry Devitt

Reid Bryson, a towering figure in climatology and interdisciplinary studies of climate, people and the environment, and the founder of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's meteorology department and Center for Climatic Research, and the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, died in his sleep early June 11 at his home in Madison. He was 88.

Bryson was one of the pioneers of modern climatology and was among the first to explore the influence of climate on humans and human culture and, in turn, some of the human impacts on climate. He was an early developer of simple computer models to study the causes of past climate change, comparing those simulations with records of paleoclimate and human culture.

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[Duke Nukum]

Here's a story from nearly a year ago regarding Prof Bryson's views on Global Warming(TM) being anthopomorphic Is Warming Our Fault?

Is Warming Our Fault?

Retired Uw Prof Claims Humans Aren't To Blame

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Monday, June 18, 2007
By Samara Kalk Derby The Capital Times

Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey.

The UW-Madison professor emeritus, who stands against the scientific consensus on this issue, is referred to as a global warming skeptic. But he is not skeptical that global warming exists, he is just doubtful that humans are the cause of it.

There is no question the Earth has been warming; it is coming out of the "Little Ice Age," he said in an interview this week.

"However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time," Bryson said.

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Sounds like my kind of a guy.

Probably he discerned the 110-year cycle of weather in Nebraska too (although that's hardly newsworthy).

This should be illuminating for the nocturnally foul one.

[Rebel]

That's 2. I fear who may be 3. Don't they always come in triples?

[Duke Nukum]

That's 2. I fear who may be 3. Don't they always come in triples?

Oddly enough I got an email from Audible.com after hearing the news about Tim Russert that a narrator named Frank Muller had died.  I didn't know him while he was alive or even if I own any books he narrated but for me that was the third one I became aware of.

[Duke Nukum]

Sounds like my kind of a guy.

Probably he discerned the 110-year cycle of weather in Nebraska too (although that's hardly newsworthy).

This should be illuminating for the nocturnally foul one.

There's a lot of good stuff in the story from a year ago.  I kind of remember reading it last year but not until I read it again.  I would have posted the link for Nowl if I had remembered.

Lots of good sig line material in that article too. If I don't get lazy I'm going to update mine with one later.