George Taylor, formerly the Oregon State Climatologist, has quietly left his job in academia after being scorned, pilloried, and mocked by Oregon’s global warming experts, Governor Ted Kulongoski and Bill Bradbury, who, when he’s not giving speeches about Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truths” and being a democratic party hack, is Oregon’s Secretary of State.
It came down to Taylor, a climate scientist, believing that while global warming has existed, it was not chiefly caused by man.
As you know Taylor was countermanded by Kulo the guv and Bradbury. In fact, the Governor didn’t even see fit to name Taylor to his global warming commission.
The State Climatologist and student of global warming –not invited.
It was as if they wanted a preordained outcome to the commission or something.
Naw….
Here’s a post back when this whole thing reared its ugly head.
Here’s George’s bio:

George H. Taylor is the State Climatologist for Oregon, and a faculty member at Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. He manages the Oregon Climate Service, the state repository of weather and climate information, and supervises a staff of ten.

Mr. Taylor is past president of the American Association of State Climatologists. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and has received certification as a Certified Consulting Meteorologist by the Society. He also has a California Lifetime Community College Credential. He has published over 200 reports, symposium articles, and journal articles.

Prior to joining Oregon State University in 1989, Mr. Taylor operated his own consulting business in Santa Barbara, California. Previously he was employed as a meteorologist by North American Weather Consultants and Environmental Research and Technology.