Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics

United States Senate ^ | 1/17/07 | Marc Morano

[Pontiac]

The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.

The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.

"If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns," Cullen wrote in her December 21 weblog on the Weather Channel Website. [Note: It is also worth taking a look at the comments section at the bottom of Cullen’s blog, very entertaining.] See: http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11396.html This latest call to silence skeptics of manmade global warming has been the subject of discussion at the annual American Meteorological Society’s Annual conference in San Antonio Texas this week. See: http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual

"It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement," Cullen added. [Note to Cullen: As the resident ‘climate expert’ at TWS, you should know that Hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere do rotate clockwise. Also, Cullen and the media have ignored the growing climate skepticism by prominent scientists see: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=E58DFF04-5A65-42A4-9F82-87381DE894CD ]

Cullen’s call for decertification of TV weatherman who do not agree with her global warming assessment follows a year (2006) in which the media, Hollywood and environmentalists tried their hardest to demonize scientific skeptics of manmade global warming. Scott Pelley, CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent, compared skeptics of global warming to "Holocaust deniers" and former Vice President turned foreign lobbyist Al Gore has repeatedly referred to skeptics as "global warming deniers." See: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Facts&ContentRecord_id=A4017645-DE27-43D7-8C37-8FF923FD73F8 & http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=E58DFF04-5A65-42A4-9F82-87381DE894CD

[aft_lizard]

Heck ask us in Phoenix, I just lost two orange trees because of the freeze.

[Pharmboy]

Geez...when is that guy gonna change his name?

[Halgr]

I would think that this would be found to be unconstitutional.

I did send a message of alarm and anger to the Weather Channel and I did contact my cable provider and asked to have the "Weather Channel" removed from my subscription.

[Ole Okie]

The global warming Nazis should camp out in my backyard where it is 7 degrees

This is beyond Nazism; this is Stalinist. The key ingredient in what's being proposed is that all communicants must confess openly that catastrophic global warming is being caused my man's activity. Otherwise, excommunication and consignment to the nether regions of hell to all ye Global Warming deniers.

Poor Mars. A couple of little Rovers were sufficient to cause planetary warming (what else could have done it?) So it's simple extrapolation to pin the blame on all those SUV's polluting the atmosphere. (I don't like tanklike SUV's, but defend to the death our right to have them.

Incidentally, humans must not breathe out carbon dioxide, either. So hold your breath, all ye who come to worship at the altar of Manmade Global Warming.

Whoosh!

[expatpat]

The liberals really are repressive fascists, aren't they? Shades of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia!

[jveritas]

LOL... good one :)

[Phantom Lord]

I'm still going to subscribe to Joe Bastardi's blog

I don't like him. His voice is annoying, his sports analogies and metaphores are terrible, and he just plain gets on my nerves.

Having said that, he would come on the local morning radio show to discuss weather with the host and when a tropical storm was forming and approaching the US over this past season. Virtually all other weather people in America (according to Joe) said this storm would be a none event. Joe however said they were all wrong, here is why, and predicted it was going to turn into a major hurricane, possibly a Cat 4, make landfall and kill everyone within 1000 miles (ok, I made the last part up). He agreed to come back in a few days to discuss the aftermath of this impending disaster, why he was right, and why all the other weather people were flat out wrong.

The storm fizzeled out, nothing came of it, and it got nowhere near land. The hosts made fun of him and it was truly funny listening to him try and explain why he was wrong.

[Shots]

Bwha I needed a good laugh thanks. As for Hedi LOL she needs her head examined her request to have the skeptics decertifed proves it.

[Phantom Lord]

I would think that this would be found to be unconstitutional.

What would be unconstitutional? Taking away the weathermans "Seal of Approval"?

Can't wait to hear your reasoning.

[pyx]

Heidi Cullen
Heidi finished her assignment as a postdoctoral research scientist on a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction in New York, comes to NCAR with expertise in two distinct areas: history and climate variability. She earned a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College before going to Columbia University for a bachelor's in engineering and operations research and a Ph.D. in climate variability.

Combining her interests, Heidi has studied historic drought and climate variability in the Middle East as well as the application of forecasts to water resource management in the La Plata Basin of South America. Her doctoral research at Columbia focused in part on the dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation as well as its impact on freshwater supplies in the Middle East.

Gak ! The Hildabeast Clinton fugly stick hath striketh twice ... with force !
Middle Eastern studies, eh... Intersting.
Ol' Heidi wouldn't be sympathetic to the "Palestinian cause" now, would she ?

[CharacterCounts]

So the Weather Channel has finally figured out that nobody watches its channel longer than the 3 minutes it takes to get the local weather update. A little controversy is bound to increase ratings.

[JennysCool]

The liberals really are repressive fascists, aren't they?

"Liberal" is the last thing they are.

[Freedom4US]

Gee, it seems just like yesterday Newsweek had "The Coming Ice Age" as their cover story.

[Freedom4US]

I enjoy looking at photographs of people who, for a number of different reasons, may not particularly enjoy being photographed.

[Wallace T.]

The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications of Virginia Beach, VA, which in turn is owned by the Batten family. Frank Batten, Jr., chairman of Landmark Communications, contributed $5,000 on December 31, 2005 to Forward Together, a Democrat affiliated PAC whose chairman is former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a Democrat. It appears that Heidi Cullen's rants are in line with the opinions of her boss.

[NormsRevenge]

3 years ago, almost to the day in NYC, Gore was going to deliver a global warming speech.. It turned out to be the coldest day for quite some time..

[jveritas]

ROTFLMAO................ :)

[D-Chivas]

I hate that smarmy broad. Screw the Weather Channel.

[Bernard Marx]

How does one reason with a liberal?

Do you know the definition of "oxymoron?"

[isom35]

she's not going to score any "cut her some slack because she's hot" points.