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To: cogitator
No, that is not what she said, at any time.

Well...

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272611052.shtml

"Dr. Heidi Cullen, a 'Climate Expert' for cable TV's 'The Weather Channel' believes that the cause of global warming is man-made. If you are a meteorologist, you too should agree. So sayeth Dr. Cullen.

An item from EPW points to a Cullen blog entry from December, (she hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code") and she 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.

It appears that she is serious. Does she really wish to try to silence critics and stifle dissent?"

The article goes on to quote Heil Heidi as saying, "maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval."

So it looks like Heil Heidi did say it. But this kind of intolerance of discussion is what I hvae come to expect from the pro-anthropogenicist side. I've sadly come to expect them to try to stifle any speech that disagrees with tehir opinion, and sadly, they keep living up to that expectation.

48 posted on 02/24/2007 10:09:13 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP
This is the exact quote from Cullen's article, which I already pointed you to (in post 33).

"And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. 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."

This says nothing about skepticism, and it says nothing about "decertification". It says that a meteorologist should understand the fundamentals of the science, and it suggests that such knowledge might be a prerequisite for the AMS Seal of Approval.

Let's say that there's a physician who doesn't believe viruses cause diseases. He believes that they are caused by evil spirits. The physician, however, is still treating patients. Should it be a requirement for legitimate certification as an M.D. that this physician should still be able to state the fundamentals of the theory of how viruses causes diseases? Should he/she at least have had the training required to be a physician and demonstrated standard medical knowledge, even if they don't believe all of it?

61 posted on 02/26/2007 9:15:50 AM PST by cogitator
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