Posted on 01/19/2007 8:09:00 AM PST by NotchJohnson
WEATHER CHANNEL ABSURDITY
Perhaps the most bizarre story of the week comes from Weather Channel Meteobabe Heidi Cullen. Apparently she hosts a show called "The Climate Code."
Let's all bask for a moment in the extremely clever play on "The DaVinci Code" popularity.
OK .. That's enough. Back to Hysterical Heidi. Cullen wants the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the group that certifies TV weathermen, to decertify any weatherman who dares to question the "fact" that man is causing catastrophic global climate change.
Note, please, that the phrase "Global warming" is no longer really in vogue. After all ... ice just destroyed much of California's citrus crop. So the word now is "climate change."
Here's what Cullen had to say on her blog:
"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. 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."
To Cullen the "fundamental science of climate change" is that global warming is being caused by man. She completely discounts cyclical weather patterns which have been proven by science. The earth has been this warm in the past .. warmer .. many times. Cullen doesn't explain why. By the way ... it has been pointed out that hurricanes do rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere -- but why be picky.
Here's another blog you might be interested in. The Weather Blog. This is from AMC certified Meteorologist James Spann. He says that he does not know of a single TV Meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. There are some excellent comments posted to Spann's blog. A good read.
Don't you just love a good juicy controversy?
$5.00 for a year with NO ads. Well worth the cost. They also have people with home weather stations sending feeds to them, so you can see real time local weather.
"All of the women are constantly rotating in and out of pregnancy. I wonder if it is somehow a job requirement."
What do you think all those meteorologists do during the commercial breaks? Those people breed like rabbits.
"So as you can see Jim, we have Low pressure coming up from the southeast, and because of selfish Americans driving SUVs which cause Global Warming, we have windy conditions across the great plains....."
Great visual! LOL
This mental midget is both ignorant and a dissimulating twit.
Hurricanes, typhoons, same thing, different places. In the Southern Hemisphere they do rotate clockwise.
Selective fear mongering based on an exaggerated sense of self-worth. They have no clue how irrelevant and silly they come across.
The science of global warming? Oh boy.
I hope her fans watch other real-world channels.
Yes! I've never watched "It Could Happen Tomorrow", I've only briefly seen previews before I hit the button to another channel. I've often wondered how badly that show must scare small children. Like we don't have enough to worry about!
Alexandra Steele always gives me the creeps. When I first saw her, I thought she was kinda 'hot' so to speak. But it didn't take long to realize that everything about her was fake and that she really didn't belong on the Weather Channel.
Mankind has been ACCURATELY recording weather for what, 200 years? And still, the Al Gore fan club members still INSIST that global warming is a) happening and b) mankind's fault. The simple fact that the geographic record documents countless shifts in weather patterns and climate over thousands of years is an inconvenient reality to Steele and her ilk.
Just my humble opinion, of course.
Why am I not surprised?
Forty years ago, that was a certain track for jobs in fast food or shoe sales.
Just saying...
As I read this thread, Rush Limbaugh is blasting her into the nether regions of the stratosphere. "There's no science here, it's pure politics", says Limbaugh.
The scientific method dictates that one gather all information from any experiment before forming so much as a theory. Even before forming a hypothesis, one must get results from at least two observable facts.
This woman is whacked.
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Heidi, you ignorant sl...
it is Dr. Cullen...
Well what'd you expect? Isn't TWC part of the CNN empire?
The Weather Channel has gone to hell over the pasy few years. it wouldbe a greattime for a competing
Weather Channel. The damn weekend show looks like the set from the view - Syrupy crap posing as realistic discussion.
I agree. Jim Cantori is the best one left.
We have a local meteorologist by the name of Kevin Williams who doesn't buy into the man-made climate change thing at all. Here's a quote from him:
We should be thankful for the greenhouse effect, he says. Without it, our planet would be a lifeless rock.
-Kevin Williams
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