Posted on 05/01/2018 10:09:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Meteorological authority prepares draft law to ban unauthorised forecasts
Donald Trump may routinely rail against the “fake news media”, but Egypt is going one better by cracking down on “fake” weather reports.
The head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority has said it is the only government body authorised to make predictions about the country’s weather, and is preparing a draft law to ban unauthorised forecasts.
Ahmed Abdel-Al, the EMA chairman, said during a television interview that the bill seeks to punish anyone “talking about meteorology, or anyone using a weather forecasting device without our consent, or anyone who raises confusion about the weather”. The EMA is Egypt’s primary, if not sole, source of domestic information on the country’s weather patterns.
Egypt’s media is under increasing pressure, with frequent accusations of fake news levelled at reporters and outlets, even those reporting in favour of the state. But false reports about the weather are rare, except perhaps for the annual repetition of doctored photos showing snow covering the pyramids and sphinx of Giza.
Weather reports have occasionally become political, however, such as when Egypt’s interior ministry claimed in 2015 that flooding in the coastal city of Alexandria was caused not by infrastructural failings, but by members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood blocking drains with cement.
Timothy Kaldas, of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy thinktank, said: “Regardless of whether or not this proposed law affects anything, it reflects the government’s view that it has a right to regulate any and all information, even information that should be a product of apolitical scientific analysis.”
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Gore-bull warming prophecy is fake news.
Must be difficult predicting weather in Egypt...Today’s forecast - HOT and dry in the desert and HOT and muggy near the water...followed by more heat later in the week...
Technology used to advance the power of government.
As Churchill feared, we are entering “the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
“...it reflects the government’s view that it has a right to regulate any and all information,...”
Speaking of fake weather, just turn on the Weather Channel and take not of how they over dramatize every storm or heat wave or cold wave.
They lost credibility a few years ago, but that doesn’t stop them from piling on the fear mongering.
They are True Believers in the Prophet Algore..................
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