Posted on 01/17/2007 6:05:23 PM PST by 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
And she gets the inverse for me since she reminds me of the hag that married my father 20 years ago(He's passed on, so I no longer have to deal with that angry woman).
To get back on topic, this is why many people no longer get their info from the weather channel and instead go to accuweather.
I've been trying to figure out the fascination with him for years. It's unfortunate that someone like Bastardi who is basically an embarassment to meteorology is also a GW skeptic - makes everyone else look bad.
I think people find him "authentic" BECAUSE he's ugly and doesn't have a slick voice or delivery - and his fanbase is largely made of people that have slightly more interest in meteorology than the average man on the street, but not that much meteorological knowledge, who also LIKES extreme weather. Bastardi basically provides "Weather Porn" - possibilities of various extreme things presented in a way that seems definite but actually is pretty vague, that don't pan out 90% of the time.
Also the columns are just poorly written and IMHO do a poor job of educating people on meteorology - a guy like Joe D'Aleo (back when he had a column) on Intellicast was miles better.
To be honest Accuweather is worse than the Weather Channel. They actually hype more, and on several occasions I've seen them flat out lie, particularly when they're taking cheap shots at the NWS. There are a few good rank and file Mets at AccuWeather but the organization is rotten at the top. Keep in mind meteorology isn't like a lot of industries - it pays more to work for the NWS than AccuWeather and the first choice of a top student out of school is virtually always going to be the NWS over private industry.
It snowed today in Los Angeles.
That may be true, but whoever does the segments on Fox News seems to be not so hype driven as the weather channel and didn't blame Katrina or Rita on global warming, but instead a natural cycle in Earth's history
I really feel, from a thermodynamic standpoint, that the Earth is NOT warming--merely in the warming PHASE of one of countless weather cycles that have occurred since there was enough atmosphere on Earth to have a climate.
Sounds like global warming to me.
Better get some SPF 25 while your out today.
OK, well I guess if we do away with the non believers, she'll get better ratings.
You know, I think he may have been at Harvard. I was late turning on Howie Carr, syndicated out of Boston, so I'm not sure if he and the callers were joking about Algor being in town.
Was there a car burning on an abandoned lot?
I do like his over-the-top style on his videos however and his genuine enthusiasm for the weather. He is not afraid to put himself out on a limb. Sometimes he is spectacularly wrong but more often, he is ahead of the curve. For example, he saw the current cold pattern coming for the past four weeks, way before anybody else was talking about it and when most people were writing this winter off.
Forget Global Warning. I think broadcast meteorologists shouldn't even be awarded certification until they can accurately predict a three-day weather forecast.
That’s great it has become a war crime to have a questioning mind. It is a crime to use the Scientific Method when questioning the Scientific Orthodoxy.
We are entering a new Dark Age. Thanks to our Liberal opposition one questions the Green Party’s “Save the Planet” line at their peril.
I'm sick and tired of these academic twits and their junk science garbage on the Weather Channel. I've gone back to raising my own wooly worms - their accuracy and reliability is better.
I say let the green trees take care of natures hiccups, and make plenty of o2 from the CO2 that these useless air breathers are exhaling so frequently.
Whoever the hell Heidi is...she may get her wish, but first the Democrats in Congress are busy doing away with conservative talk radio so it will be a little while before they get around to decertifying all the scientists that don't mimic the party line.
This is beyond Nazism; this is Stalinist.
Trofim Lysenko is alive and well
You are obviously one of the unwashed masses and can't understand the nuances of Global Warming. It actually means that in highly selective places the unbalance will cause people to be instantly frozen in place ala "The Day After Tomorrow". You reactionary fool! ;)
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