Con job at The Weather Channel

WorldNetDaily ^ | 1-5-07 | Melanie Morgan

[Ouderkirk]

Con job at The Weather Channel

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 5, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern

This week Americans observed a national day of mourning (I'm speaking not of President Ford's funeral, but rather the day that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi seized power in Congress). Far-left political ideologies are being promulgated through ever-increasing mediums, and recently I noticed that a once-vaunted American television network, The Weather Channel, had succumbed to the cancerous spread of liberalism.

The Weather Channel debuted in 1982 and went on to earn a reputation as a well-known and respected cable network. The explosive success of the cable channel prompted the publication of a book marking the network's 20th anniversary. That success has been based on the fact that weather forecasts are sought after by a vast number of Americans on a near-daily basis.

What had been nice about The Weather Channel is that through most of its history it stayed clear of political propaganda and focused on delivering weather forecasts to the nation, supplemented with riveting live reports from the front lines of hurricanes, winter blizzards and springtime floods.

But no more. The Weather Channel is now engaged in a con job on the American people, attempting to scare the public that their actions are destroying the planet by creating a global warming crisis.

The move away from scientific forecasting of the weather to sensationalized leftist political advocacy is in part due to the influence of Wonya Lucas, executive vice president and general manager of The Weather Channel Networks.

Lucas admitted in a recent interview with Media Village that the reprogramming of The Weather Channel was influenced by her tenure at CNN when that network shifted from presenting straight news to personality-driven programming.

Lucas decided that what was good for CNN was good for The Weather Channel, and the objectivity and respectability of the network has now been thrown out the window. It doesn't matter that CNN's turn to the left has caused their ratings to plummet; The Weather Channel's embraced its model.

Media Village reported that the move by The Weather Channel "is intended to establish a broader perspective on the weather category and, says Lucas, to move the brand from functional to emotional."

Emotional weather forecasting?

The Weather Channel is launching a new website and broadband channel dedicated solely to global warming called "One Degree" and has a weekly program called "The Climate Code," devoted almost entirely to liberal advocacy on climate matters.

The network is running advertisements showcasing scared and confused Americans, including children and senior citizens, wondering about the coming apocalypse caused by global warming. (You can view the ad for yourself here.)

The chief martyr for the new "emotional" approach to broadcasting at The Weather Channel is Dr. Heidi Cullen, who serves as the network's cheerleader for global warming hysteria. Cullen's supposed expertise on climatology includes, among other things, earning a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College. One must indeed have to believe in the mystical to accept anything Ms. Cullen has to say about climatology.

Writing for the One Degree blog, Ms. Cullen recently threw a hissy fit that some meteorologists are openly questioning the conclusions drawn by the Greenpeace crowd about the nature, extent, causes and even existence of global warming.

Cullen's diatribe, titled "Junk Controversy Not Junk Science," called on the American Meteorological Society to start requiring all meteorologists to tow the line on liberal interpretation of global warming, or else lose the organization's certification.

George Orwell's 1984 couldn't have concocted a better form of thought control.

The global warming crowd, led by arrogant hustlers such as Heidi Cullen at The Weather Channel, has set up a no-lose situation for themselves.

Climatology is by definition the study of long-term climate trends, and it will indeed be many decades or longer before any definitive conclusions about even the existence of global warming – let alone its causes – can be determined to be true or false. This means that Cullen and her cohorts can't be held accountable for their erroneous beliefs.

Even still, we can see how foolish it is to allow people like Heidi Cullen to influence decision-makers to impose further restrictions and regulations on the actions of human beings. Global warming scaremongers jumped on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the busy 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and went on to predict that 2006 would be a potentially devastating year of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.

As it was, not one single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.

If forecasters can't reliably tell us what will happen in two to three months from now, why would anyone trust that they know what will happen with the weather in 50 or 100 years from now and let them tell us how to live our lives accordingly?

This is all about Big Brother do-gooders trying to control how you live your life, and stripping away the freedoms and liberties of people to live their lives as they see fit, engage in commerce and raise their families.

There's a con job going on at The Weather Channel, and it's time that viewers let the network know it's time to stop the liberal politicization of weather reporting.

You can contact The Weather Channel's vice president of public relations, Kathy Lane, at klane@weather.com to let her know what you think about the new direction of The Weather Channel and voice your opinion.

[WKB]

Really, why anyone with a computer would watch The Weather Channel?

To see Sally?

[Alia]

I didn't look, but what album is that on? Here's my Beatle lyric song for addition:

Mamunia By Paul McCartney
Mamunia Mamunia Mamunia Mamunia Mamunia Oh Oh Oh Oh
The Rain Comes Falling From The Sky,
To Fill The Stream That Fills The Sea
And That's Where Life Began For You And Me

So The Next Time You See Rain It Ain't Bad,
Don't Complain It Rains For You,
The Next Time You See L.A. Rainclouds,
Don't Complain It Rains For You And Me

Mamunia...

It Might Have Been A Bright Blue Day
But Rainclouds Had To Come This Way
They're Watering Everything That They Can See.

A Seed Is Waiting In The Earth
For Rain To Come And Give Him Free,
So The Next Time You See L.A. Rainclouds
Don't Complain, It Rains For You.

So Lay Down Your Umbrellas
Strip Off Your Plastic Macs.
You've Never Felt The Rain My Friend,
Till You've Felt It Running Down Your Back

So The Next Time You See Rain, It Ain't Bad
Don't Complain, It Rains For You.
The Next Time You See L.A. Rainclouds
Don't Complain It Rains For You And Me.

Mamunia...

[leadpenny]

Whoa! I gotta get new batteries for my remote.

[WKB]

She's on NOW

[Unassuaged]

While I agree that 'wind chill' is misused, it is a useful metric.

[leadpenny]

Thanks.

[KoRn]

I think it's time to take a break from the computers.

I read the headline as being a cron job. I then wondered what an article could be about regarding a cron job at the weather channel. I read over the article and there was no mention of computers, or any cron jobs. Then I realized what happened!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is there streaming video of her?

[Red Badger]

I'm not sure what album it's on........

[WKB]

And for your weekend viewing pleasure we have

Brigitta

[ishabibble]

Fie! Fie! By ignoring the victims in our transgendered community, whose plastic parts are in danger of melting,
you've marginalized the contributions of great feminists everywhere who have empowered the sexually oppressed and the victims of the extreme elements of the conservative Christians. The weather is like the oil, the Republicans are to blame!

When you look at it like this, doesn't it boggle the mind that anyone with a lick of common sense would pay these nutcases any attention? Bald-faced propaganda masquerading as news. Thank you, MSM.

[Ditter]

Ah yes, Storm Stories, what a crock! I wondered what happened over at the Weather Channel.

[WKB]

Here is a link to the WC homepage


http://www.weatherchannel.com.au/Magic94scripts/mgrqispi94.dll?appname=WC&prgname=WC&Template=HomePage

[PhiKapMom]

Last night on the local news in OKC Gary England, our local weather guru, showed the figures of world temperatures increasing this year by .002% (something close to that) for 2007 over 2006 and he says big freaking deal. He went on to say that is no global warming but there is an El Nino and it always changes the weather based on warming in the ocean that occurs regularly. He debunked global warming and I sat there laughing. Turns out the hottest year worldwide was in the 90's and gotten cooler since.

[usslsm51]

For several years the Weather Channel is the last place to go for the weather. It is nothing more than a measly entertainment channel with bad players.

[Thermalseeker]

The Weather Channel website has become unusable.

I wholeheartedly agree. I was on there a couple of weeks ago checking ski conditions. It kept nagging me to fill out some survey on their new website design. I let 'em have it. I told them it was unusable and cluttered. Haven't been back since.

I like http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov

[CFC__VRWC]

I've been watching the Weather Channel less and less due to the availability of much better weather data on the internet. But what finally drove me to turn them off for good was their coverage of Ernesto last year. I and lots of other people on the Ernesto threads right here on FR knew days ahead of landfall that this storm was never going to develop into a monster hurricane - there were just too many atmospheric factors working against it.

But that didn't stop the Weather Channel from leading the hysterical media pack in predicting death and destruction on the scale of Katrina. That didn't stop them from trying to drive fear and panic into people in Florida who have been smacked around a fair amount in the past couple of years by hurricanes, so are naturally a bit gun-shy. And for what?

What did I finally get from this storm? Maybe a couple of inches of rain - there wasn't even enough wind to knock down small tree limbs. Regular summer afternoon thunderstorms in Florida are often worse than that.

It was clear to me that the Weather Channel, and the rest of the media, wasn't just "trying to keep us informed", no matter what they say. They were hoping for a monster hurricane and catastrophic damage - the only way they could have been more blatant would have been to appear in the studio in cheerleader outfits waving pom poms on camera, chanting "Go Ernesto, Go!"

It didn't matter to them one whit the deaths and destruction and misery that millions of people would have had to deal with. All that was important to them was having another Katrina that they could blame on George Bush and use to push their global warming agenda.

That's why I will not watch the Weather Channel again.

[cogitator]

The chief martyr for the new "emotional" approach to broadcasting at The Weather Channel is Dr. Heidi Cullen, who serves as the network's cheerleader for global warming hysteria. Cullen's supposed expertise on climatology includes, among other things, earning a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College.

That's a bit of mudslinging, I think.

"Dr. Cullen was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She has done research in the U.S. Southwest, the Middle East (Syria and Turkey), publishing on domestic and international climate topics. She is a member of the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Group, an international project aimed at identifying, understanding, and predicting types of variability within the Earth's complex climate system. As a postdoctorate, Dr. Cullen received the prestigious NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship and spent two years working at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) where she collaborated with scientists from Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. She received a bachelor's degree in Engineering/Operations Research from Columbia University in New York City and went on to receive her doctorate in climatology and ocean-atmosphere dynamics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University."

I think that qualifies her as an expert.

[cogitator]

See post 58.

[MortMan]

I work in the hi-tech field and this has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. So I asked a group of engineers if water would freeze at a temperature of 34 degrees but with a wind chill of 20 degrees, about half it seemed were unsure.

Answer: No, water would not freeze, but it may feel as though your blood was starting to ice up!

Have a great day, FRiend.