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Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
United States Senate ^ | 1/17/07 | Marc Morano

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; climatechange; globalwarmig; greenieweenies; heidicullen; junkscience; litmustest; pc; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; pseudoscience; thoughtcrime; weatherbimbo
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To: Vision

global temp through history http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm


81 posted on 01/17/2007 9:01:19 PM PST by jyro
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To: LukeL
"I don't think anyone who has looked at the evidence will say that global warming isn't happening."

Global warming IS NOT occurring. Please post all charts and data sources to support your position that it is. You made an unsupported and unfounded statement that it is occurring.

Yes is is a general cycle but when taken in the context of WORLD history, not summer two years ago, it is not happening.

Please post your data for all to see. Oh, and I fixed your spelling of the word "happening" in the statement you made and I quoted above. Spell check is your friend.
82 posted on 01/17/2007 9:10:18 PM PST by JSteff
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To: Calvin Locke

"She transferred over from CNN"

Rats always find a suitable home.


83 posted on 01/17/2007 9:13:32 PM PST by JSteff
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To: RatsDawg
"Rush was the guy on the radio everyday after school complaining about this or that lol."

A lot of liberals also take commentary as "complaining". Facts don't matter just that you feel like they do.

So do you still find his commentary "complaining"?
84 posted on 01/17/2007 9:20:11 PM PST by JSteff
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To: Publius6961
"When weather readers"

Sadly, I believe she has a doctorate in meteorology. At least that is what another poster her said when they also commented that she left the Weather Channel and now works at CNN.
85 posted on 01/17/2007 9:22:23 PM PST by JSteff
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To: aft_lizard

Just a curiosity question....

When you say "lose", do you mean that they have to be removed?

Or does it mean that you just won't get oranges from them this year?


86 posted on 01/17/2007 9:23:18 PM PST by Danette ("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: penowa

Both are critical free speech issues, but I think they are part of a larger agenda with tentacles even out to issues like "The Final Solution" style starvation murder of Terri Schiavo.


87 posted on 01/17/2007 9:40:30 PM PST by libill (Socialism is communism with a happy face.)
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To: mesoman7
Knowing how much error can result from minor changes over a relatively short forecast period, how much error can you expect from data which is slightly better than a blind guess.

I am a simple layman and I figured that out years ago. Why can’t a women with multiple college degrees?

88 posted on 01/17/2007 9:45:08 PM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: healy61
I often believe my predictions for our local storms and snows is better than from professionals.

I ran into a website that rated all the forecasts from the major services, and the government did the best by far. That's what I use and it's almost always right. The weather people on TV are mostly hacks.

www.weather.gov

89 posted on 01/17/2007 9:47:53 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: finnman69
Most people seem surprised when we say current levels are relatively low, at least from a long-term perspective

The long downtrend from the Cambrian makes sense. A lot of biological organisms sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere and got subducted into the crust over that timespan.

90 posted on 01/17/2007 10:05:19 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I don't have cable anymore (so TWC doesn't get a dime from me even if I'm NOT watching).

But when I did, I forever tuned out on The Weather Channel when I was stuck inside in Houston during Hurrican Allison and the reports were four hours minimum out of date.

Worthless. You are on your own if you are in a disaster.

They show some weather. But you can get that from the internet. But old people seem to find it calming. Especially if the coverage has nothing to do with learning about weather forecasts in their area.


91 posted on 01/17/2007 10:21:36 PM PST by weegee (The Left is worried that '24' will have the same effect as LBJ's 'Daisy' mushroom ad.)
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To: JSteff

When I say global warming I just mean a warming trend that has occured over the past couple decades, and 20-50 years from now we could enter a period of global cooling.


92 posted on 01/17/2007 10:23:21 PM PST by LukeL (Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
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To: Moonman62

Houston just ran the impending Ice Storm for 5 days of round the clock hype (we are talking 20 minutes of a 30 minute newscast). We froze up today (but were always told how it was coming in early and then "late").

But it makes for good ratings. Just like the old cliffhanger serials a the movie theaters.


93 posted on 01/17/2007 10:23:49 PM PST by weegee (The Left is worried that '24' will have the same effect as LBJ's 'Daisy' mushroom ad.)
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To: Desron13
in highly selective places the unbalance will cause people to be instantly frozen in place

Seems to be selectively starting at about my gonads....

94 posted on 01/17/2007 10:34:13 PM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: Czar
Who ya gonna believe...Heidi Cullen or your lyin' eyes?

Dunno..... got a pic of Heidi????

95 posted on 01/17/2007 10:36:35 PM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: Pontiac

She hasn't been beaten with the "Reality Stick" enough times. I find that to be a common flaw among the academics.


96 posted on 01/17/2007 10:38:16 PM PST by mesoman7
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To: RatsDawg
I remember being a young boy of probably 9 or 10 back in the early 90's and this had to be 92 or 93

We must be about the same age.

97 posted on 01/17/2007 10:49:39 PM PST by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: Czar
Saw Heidis' pic...... my eyes don't lie!!!!
98 posted on 01/18/2007 12:21:20 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: Phantom Lord

please hold your breath....but I am sure a smart attorney would figure out a way


99 posted on 01/18/2007 1:49:38 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: jveritas

It has been very cold in Massachusetts ever since the Massachusetts Republican Party died in Massachusetts over fifty years ago!


100 posted on 01/18/2007 1:56:49 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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