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...other than that...it's pretty useless...
What a solid business model.
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.
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.
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.
The "Weather" Channel? Oh - you mean that channel that shows commercials 24/7 for bladder control and health insurance?
Anybody know why they have pro wrestking on SCI-FI?
I call it "The Nanny Channel" and refuse to watch it while the sound is on.
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...other than that...it's pretty useless...
The nice thing about hurricanes is that they give you at least 36 hours to get away from them. Only fools don't heed the warning! With a tree on the house and no electricity for a month it's best just to leave. Trees and high winds don't mix!
What do you expect from something run on the National Weather Service? After all, it is a gov-run thing.
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"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."
Amen!
I used to enjoy the Weather Channel, much to my wife's chagrin. No More.
I hate the 'It could happen Tomorrow' stuff. Total Scaremongering.
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I haven't watched the Weather Channel for a long time.
going to the internet is much much easier....
The weather channel AKA Environmental Nut job Channel
WL: This season we focused more on the “after,’’ the post-hurricane, than we ever did before. We’ll continue to do that with more depth.
Wonya Y. Lucas is executive vice president of marketing at The Weather Channel®. In this role, Ms. Lucas oversees and has leadership responsibility for all marketing functions for The Weather Channel network and weather.com®, along with various digital cable, radio, newspaper and interactive television initiatives.
Most recently, she served as senior vice president of strategic marketing for Domestic Networks of the CNN News Group, where she was responsible for all CNN domestic marketing, creative services supporting CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News, CNNfn, and CNN.com.
Previously, Ms. Lucas was vice president of business operations and network development for the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. entertainment networks, TBS Superstation, TNT, Turner Classic Movies and Turner South. She joined that company in 1994 as strategic marketing director for Turner Corporate Marketing and was later named vice president of marketing for TNT, responsible for the development of advertising campaigns, promotions and trade marketing.
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