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The launch of a Fox News weather channel has climate crisis experts concerned, report says
Business Insider via MSN ^ | 7/11/21 | Sophia Ankel

Posted on 07/12/2021 1:34:40 AM PDT by Libloather

The upcoming launch of a new weather channel run by Fox News Media has some climate crisis experts deeply concerned, according to multiple reports.

The network, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, announced in December 2020 that it would debut Fox Weather, a 24-hour channel devoted to all things meteorological, by the end of the year.

The channel promises "cutting-edge display technology" with "forecasting experts surrounding every major weather event," according to a press release.

The channel will be led by six meteorologists, including Jason Frazer, Britta Merwin, Craig Herrera, Brigit Mahoney, Nick Kosir, and Stephen Morgan, the New York Times reported. Shane Brown, a meteorologist from The Weather Channel, already defected to Fox last month.

As its debut date approaches, climate crisis experts are concerned that the network's weather arm will adopt the same rhetoric of its sister channel.

They say that Fox News has spent years undermining the idea of a man-made climate crisis with its biggest hosts, including Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, repeatedly downplaying the global threat of the climate crisis.

A Public Citizen analysis in 2019 found that 86% of climate segments that aired on Fox News in 2018 included claims dismissing or casting doubt on the global threat.

"Fox News has access to and is highly trusted by a wide range of conservative Americans - which is precisely the audience that least well understands the serious threats that climate change poses to the safety, security, and health of all Americans," Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, told the Guardian.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fake; fox; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; scam; weather
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A weather debate. This could be good. Science.
1 posted on 07/12/2021 1:34:40 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Great news.
Maybe they will cover the records colds we had, shrinking Sahara, comparative lack of hurricanes, and all the benefits of Co2 fertilizing.


2 posted on 07/12/2021 1:37:31 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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The upcoming launch of a new weather channel run by Fox News Media has some climate crisis experts deeply concerned, according to multiple reports.

I love to see liberals squirming. Does my heart good. Screw them.

3 posted on 07/12/2021 1:52:38 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Force ATC, Retired. Father of US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained combat pilot )
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To: Libloather

I wish they would hire Joe Bastardi.
The “climate crisis” doomsayers predictions have been wrong since before they were predicting an ice age in the 70’s! Any real reporter could do a multi hour series on climate predictions that have failed to materialize.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/


4 posted on 07/12/2021 1:57:06 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Libloather

“Calling Shepard Smith” !!!


5 posted on 07/12/2021 2:03:52 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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To: Recon Dad

Please, NO.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 2:06:26 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Libloather

bookmark


7 posted on 07/12/2021 2:10:27 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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has some climate crisis experts deeply concerned

Their concern is troubling.

8 posted on 07/12/2021 2:40:34 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: outofsalt

“I wish they would hire Joe Bastardi.”
Your kidding right? Total loser.


9 posted on 07/12/2021 2:54:54 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Libloather

The leftist MANIA over anything Fox News continues. And Fox has one guy on the entire network that leans right, who many on the right don’t even like anymore.


10 posted on 07/12/2021 3:01:03 AM PDT by KobraKai
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...which is precisely the audience that least well understands the serious threats that climate change poses ...

Understands it's a scam created by third world countries trying to pick the pockets of rich nation's.

11 posted on 07/12/2021 3:05:59 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: duckman

Joe Bastardi is my, “go to” weather guy! https://www.weatherbell.com is my weather forecast site.


12 posted on 07/12/2021 3:18:04 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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“Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication..”

Oh I trust this jagoff....his livelihood depends on perpetuating the hoax.


13 posted on 07/12/2021 3:19:45 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: outofsalt

I was hoping for his name in the list of meteorologists.


14 posted on 07/12/2021 3:35:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

A faux weather debate.

Note to Fox Corp: Fool me once, shame you. Fool me twice, shame on me.


15 posted on 07/12/2021 3:38:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Joe Bastardi vs. Al Gore, Gretta Thunberg, and Michael Mann. I’d pay for that to be on Pay per View.


16 posted on 07/12/2021 3:44:58 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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The launch of a Fox News weather channel has climate crisis experts concerned

The Babylon Bee is sad to report that one of its planned satire pieces has been killed by reality beating it to the punch.

17 posted on 07/12/2021 3:52:30 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: Libloather

Every article I read or see on tv about Trump’s claims of the election being stolen includes adjectives resulting in “Trump’s baseless claims”, or similar garbage. None of his claims has been proven to be baseless, as not a single court has agreed to hear any of the evidence available.

It sickens me that a major election event can be stolen or even merely appear to be stolen based on increasingly valid evidence, while both the media and judiciary are so fearful of the repercussions that they refuse to honestly and openly investigate valid claims.

Such a lack of integrity only gives credence to those existing conspiracy theories, and only gives rise to the increasing growing number of new ones.


18 posted on 07/12/2021 4:11:45 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: outofsalt

I’m in, I’d pay good money to watch that!


19 posted on 07/12/2021 4:13:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Hopefully they wont be the politicized drama queens that are on the weather channel.
And please, dont stand out in a hurricane to show how “ferocious” and “catastrophic” it is and then tell people dont do this.


20 posted on 07/12/2021 4:15:01 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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