Posted on 04/02/2019 1:55:51 PM PDT by rktman
On Monday and Tuesday, NBC weatherman Al Roker reported live from Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States, labeling it “ground zero for climate change.” Throughout the segment, Roker implored the nation to “make a commitment” to abandon fossil fuels and assured viewers: “This is not a theory, this is reality here.”
“We are back with our special series Al in the Arctic. Al’s there exploring an issue that a lot of folks all over the world are concerned about, and rightfully so, climate change,” co-host Craig Melvin announced during the Today show’s 8:00 a.m. ET hour on Monday. “Yeah, he traveled to the epicenter of the issue, way, way up in Alaska,” fellow co-host Hoda Kotb added.
Roker warned his colleagues:
And here in Utqiagvik, things are heating up, and we don’t mean in a good way. When I arrived here on Saturday morning, we hit a high of 33 degrees, that’s a record for the day, which is 36 degrees above average....it’s actually raising major red flags for scientists about what’s possible when it comes to climate change.
As his taped report began, Roker narrated: “It’s the top of the world, and for scientists, Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, is ground zero for climate change.” Talking to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist Bryan Thomas, the meteorologist asked: “As a planet, we make a commitment to change something, that you can reverse damage that has been done?” Thomas replied: “We all hope so.”
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He went on a sailboat.
Same way @AOC went to Texas for SXSW.
Right?
This is a real ‘Manufactured Crisis”.
Where’s a hungry polar bear when you need one?
I miss Williard Scott.
this is serious. It’s gonna hit 120 degrees. This summer. Death Valley.
Remember when some conservatives thought there was going to be a national “reckoning” by the fake news industrial complex after the Mueller implosion? The propaganda never stops, ever.
Exactly my first thought.
Last year Al missed a freak snow storm around NY and had a public fight with Warren Wilhelm. Al let it known that all stations use a weather service and all stations had it wrong.
Three things:1)Is this not meteorologist plagiarism? 2)Why do stations actually need meteorologists? 3) If this guy can’t predict weather that’s hours ahead of him, Why would anyone listen to what he has to say years into the future?
LOLOLOL
ha!
how to get rid of a staffer ...
send him to the North Pole?
HA HA !!!!!!
HA!
and more HA!
You mean a guy who didn't seem to have an agenda other than telling the weather and wishing 100 year olds a happy Smuckers birthday? Tell it brother!
Ground zero for climate change? He went to the sun?
Climate change! Well, $&@% my pants and call me Roker!
Will So be pooping himself again?
He’d have no place in network TV now.
Why didn’t he go there for newyears?
Instead he shows up for the Spring melt.
NBC local news was reporting this morning that BOTH “earlier than normal” spring weather and “later than normal spring weather” cause pollen allergies to be worse for those who are allergic, and that the timing of the weather is due to “climate change”.
I suppose they wrapped it up so well that no one can argue.
Still known as Barrow to all but the PC crowd.
It was seasonally average here in the Twin Cities. After typical cold the last couple of months with near-record snowfall.
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