Lee Michaels wrote:
"Swingman" wrote

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Bill Gray Univ. Colorado) is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane
expert. His Tropical Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his
criticism of the global warming "hoax" makes him an outcast.

Roger Pielke Sr. at the University of Colorado, is also skeptical.

But, but ... BIG headlines Monday here in Houston: "Global warming
expert (sic) speaks at Rice University".

Buried in the article, his "expert" credentials ... "economics
professor".

Isn't "economics professor" a guy who can't get a regular job?

I guess that makes him an expert of some kind.

My two favorite definitions of "expert"--"somebody 500 miles from home
with a briefcase" and "an 'ex' is a has-been, a 'spurt' is a drip under
pressure."

I enrolled for an economics course once--the professor was a seedy
little guy in a brown suit about 30 years old that did not appear to
have been pressed or mended in 20, and I saw him drive off that
afternoon in a car that was older than I was that was mostly rust except
for the holes. He spent most of the first lecture telling us how
important he was and how most of us were going to fail the class and how
he had tenure and there wasn't anything any of us could do about it and
on and on. Several of the students, recently back from Vietnam, debated
holding a blanket party for the twit. Personally I just dropped the
course.

Now, whenever I tell that story, some moron comes up with "intelligence
doesn't have anything to do with income", to which my response is that
the guy is supposed to be an expert on _money_. If he knows so much
about it how come he's never managed to acquire any?

When I went to get him to sign the drop form and he saw what I was
dropping my advisor told me about a convention he had recently attended
where an economist spent a hour and filled three boards with equations
deriving the formula for compound interest, like that was some important
new result.

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