Posted on 10/14/2007 11:00:23 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
He is not only brainwashing kids, Bill O’Reilly, Gov Arnold, Gov Pawlenty and almost all MSM.
They have to invent a new cause every decade. What would be next? Come to think of it, next time, we may not be well-off enough to indulge in this kind of expensive luxury.
Just out of curiosity, how accurate was he this year or last year with his initial predictions?
I salute his bravery and honesty.
Of course, it’s a good thing he has tenure.
Anyway, this morning I was getting ready to go to church and since it was still dark out I decided to check the Weatherbug on my computer to see what the weather was going to be like for the day before I picked what I was going to wear. I didn't want to put on a suit if it was going to be 100 degrees today when I could just wear slacks, a shirt and a tie. I had other things to do after church today and since this is Texas, wearing a suit in the summer sucks (this is Texas, October is still summer here) whenyou got a lot of running around to do.
My Weather bug said it was going to be in the lower 90's all day today and stay in the 90's tomorrow.
Since I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, the weather information for my desktop Weatherbug application is provided by WFAA channel 8. Here's a little back ground:
Belo Corp. is a broadcast pioneer, first launching Dallas radio station WFAA in 1922. By 1930, WFAA-AM, whose call letters stood for "Working For All Alike," was one of the largest stations in the United States, reaching some 4.3 million listeners.
In 1949 Belo — the oldest continually operating business in Texas, dating to 1842, and publisher of The Dallas Morning News — was ready to gamble on the new medium of television.
On Dec. 31, 1949, Belo's board of directors resolved to purchase KBTV (Channel 8), which had signed on the air three months earlier on Sept. 17. Alben Barkley, vice president of the United States under President Harry Truman, cut the ribbon in the opening ceremonies for the station, which was owned by Texas oilman Tom Potter and affiliated with the DuMont Network. It was the first television station located in Dallas.
Belo assumed control of the station in early 1950 and changed the call letters to WFAA. Within a year, the station had signed contracts with NBC and ABC to carry their network programs. Soon, Channel 8 was airing the first live broadcasts in the area, using bulky studio cameras and primitive sound and lighting equipment.
In 1954, WFAA carried the first color broadcasts in north Texas as well as the most technologically advanced weather reports. A new transmitter tower constructed at Cedar Hill in 1955 made WFAA the most powerful television station in Texas.
In 1957, WFAA became an exclusive affiliate of ABC and became the top-rated station in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. By 1959, it was airing seven nights of news, weather and sports events each week.
Acquisition of the area's first videotape machine and mobile cruisers kept the station on the cutting edge of broadcast technology. In 1961, WFAA moved from its original studios on Harry Hines Boulevard to a new, state-of-the-art facility on Young Street in downtown Dallas, adjacent to The Dallas Morning News. The Harry Hines studio is now the home of KERA, Dallas¹ PBS station.
In the early days, WFAA launched several long-running programs for the local viewers, such as the children's show, Peppermint Place, starring Jerry Haynes as Mr. Peppermint. Others were Dallas Morning News food editor Julie Benell's lively cooking show, with its homey studio kitchen, and Sump'n else, a teenage dance show hosted by popular disc jockey Ron Chapman, which was broadcast from a remote location, Studio 3 at NorthPark Center.
For eighteen years, WFAA Station Manager Mike Shapiro hosted his own weekly program, Let Me Speak to the Manager, in which he answered viewers' questions about Channel 8's programming and policies.
News and locally produced programs continued to be crucial elements of WFAA's broadcast philosophy. The station¹s evening news broadcasts have consistently ranked first in the local market since the 1980s. Good Morning Texas, a live morning program of talk, information and entertainment, has led its time period nearly every quarter since its debut in 1994.
WFAA remains in the cutting edge of broadcast technology. WFAA introduced high definition television (HDTV) to more than 150,000 viewers at the State Fair of Texas in September 1997. The following February, WFAA-DT broadcast the nation's first nonexperimental HDTV on a VHF signal. It was also the first time a local news program had ever been broadcast on HDTV.
By broadcasting premium-quality television built around sound local news, syndicated and network programming, WFAA has ranked as the most-watched news station in the Dallas-Fort Worth market for years. It is the flagship television station of Belo, which owns top-rated television stations coast to coast in markets including Seattle-Tacoma, Phoenix, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and others. In addition to The Dallas Morning News, Belo also owns The Providence Journal, the nation¹s oldest newspaper, and the Press Enterprise in Riverside, Calif.
WFAA has benefited not only from the talent of its employees but also by their loyalty to the station. In am industry characterized by frequent moves from market to market, the longevity of WFAA's staff is remarkable. Many administrative, technical and on-air staff spent their entire career with the station.
Station managers who led WFAA-TV during its early years were Martin B. Campbell (1950-1951), Ralph W. Nimmons (1951-1956), and Alex Keese (1956-1958). Myron F. (Mike) Shapiro led the station form 1958 to 1973, first as station manager and then as general manager. Serving under him as station manager were Ed Pfeiffer (1962-1967) and Jack Hauser (1967-1973).
Ward L. Huey Jr. assumed leadership of WFAA in 1973 when Belo created a division called Belo Broadcasting, with James M. Moroney Jr. as president and Mike Shapiro as executive vice president. David T. Lane succeeded Ward Huey in 1975 when Huey became vice president and general manager of all Belo broadcast properties. Dave Lane led WFAA for seventeen years and was succeeded in 1992 by Cathleen A. Creany. WFAA's current president and general manager, Kathy Clements-Hill, moved into the position in 1997. She is only the second woman ever to hold the position of general manager at the Dallas television station.
WFAA's journalistic excellence has been recognized over the years with numerous industry awards. They include three George Foster Peabody Awards and eight duPont-Columbia University Awards, broadcast journalism's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
Seems pretty impressive to me, They even won all of these awards:
The Sidney Hillman Foundation
2004 – For "State of Denial," by Brett Shipp, Mark Smith and Kraig Kirchem
USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award For Excellence in Television Political Journalism
2003 – For joint television/Web political coverage
National Edward R. Murrow Awards
2003 – For Best Newscast for a report on a bus that killed four Garland youths, and for Best Videography for a story about forest fires that hit Colorado
2002 – For Best Local News Investigation, Lives at Risk: An Emergency Room Investigation;" a special series of stories on serious medical care questions at a hospital.
2000 – For Best Newscast, the station's News 8 Update at 10 p.m., and Best Investigative Report for "Costly Credit," a series of reports on credit cards.
George Foster Peabody Awards
1987 – For coverage of the scandal in the Southern Methodist University football program
1996 – For its series on the Dallas Independent School District's abuses of insurance and pension policies
2003 – For a series of News 8 Investigates reports, “Fake Drugs, Real Lives.” A series of probing stories on Dallas police officers use of planted powdered gypsum as evidence to convict poor and immigrant defendants on drug charges
duPont-Columbia University Awards
1976 – For Investigative Reporting, for "Clear and Present Danger," a series on environmental hazards
1977 – For Investigative Reporting, for "Evening Magazine" coverage of the North Texas Municipal Power Agency, and for continuing commitment to investigative reporting
1988 – For Investigative Reporting, for coverage of the scandal involving “pay for play” charges within the SMU football Program
1989 – For Investigative Reporting, for "Other People's Money," an investigation of the crisis in the savings and loan industry
1992 – For Spot News Coverage of the Persian Gulf War
1997 – For Investigative Reporting on the Dallas Independent School District
2003 – For a series of News 8 Investigates reports, “Fake Drugs, Real Lives”
2005 – For a series of News 8 Investigates reports on the medical-health-insurance industry, “State of Denial”
I don't know what all those awards mean, but they look impressive. So you've got to figure that with all that prestige and awards that they probably hire professional meteorologists who probably even have college degrees in Science and stuff. Their website even talks about all this advanced satellite and radar equipment they have to "keep us safe and informed during weather emergencies", you got to figure if they spent all that money to buy the things they probably even know how to use them too.
Keeping all that in mind, I'm pretty confident in their weather forecasting ability, in fact, I would even go as far as saying they are just as good as anybody else in the weather forecasting on TV industry.
But right now, it's raining. It's raining so hard that they are even calling it "severe weather" and have issued a "flood advisory" for the next two hours and the rain is supposed to last until late tomorrow night.
Here's my point, if at 6 o'clock this morning these professional weather forecaster said it was going to be hot for the next two day and they had no idea that in 14 hours it was going to be raining hard enough to issue "flood advisories", then how the hell does Al Gore know what the weather is going to be like on the entire planet in 50 years?
Of course it is ...But its being done for the good of the children...even if its all lies. grrr!!!
“Human Caused Global Warming” is the phrenology of the 21st century
He is not only brainwashing kids, Bill O’Reilly, Gov Arnold, Gov Pawlenty and almost all MSM.
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Evidenced by, Democrat supporters still buy gasoline in record amounts.
That reminds me of one evening several years ago in San Diego when the local TV weatherman opened by saying, "I was all set to come on and tell the viewers that, based on the latest computer technology, tonight and tomorrow will be fair and warm. But one of the producers suggested that I open the back door to the studio before I go on the air. And, now I know what all of you viewers know. It's raining cats and dogs out there." Whereupon, he threw up his papers and the station cut to a commercial. It was quite funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911148/posts
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When the entire “Global Warming” phenomenon is proven bogus mass hysteria, will Al Gore have to give the awards back?
AGW™ ping
He doesn't and neither do the so-called "experts". There is so much about the atmosphere and it's interaction with the oceans, much of which is not understood, it is simply not possible for them to accurately predict weather with any degree of accuracy more than 72 hours out. Ask any pilot about the accuracy of weather forecasts more than a day or two out and they'll tell you the same thing.
What amazes me is the number of folks who won't bother to look at the ice core data and other historical data that has been accumulated and make their own conclusions. It's obvious to me that there are many cycles in play here. If you look at the trends shown in all of the seven major ice core expeditions they all show the same thing, C02 follows temperature, not the other way around. It appears that C02 is a minor greenhouse gas and plays very little if any role at all in global temperature. The ice cores show trends that lead me to believe we are headed for another ice age, but not in my lifetime.
Will Gore return his trophy and will the committee accept it?
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Thanks for reminding me anyway.:-)
From Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”
Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. they are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can’t even see — germs, chemicals additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable!
The military-industrial complex is no longer the primary driver of society. In reality, for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And it is dedicated to promoting fear in the population — under the guise of promoting safety.
Politicians need fears to control the population. Lawyers need dangers to litigate, and make money. The media need scare stories to capture an audience. Together, these three estates are so compelling that they can go about their business even if the scare is totally groundless.
Old biological mechanism for avoiding danger is now exploited to control human behavior. The art of pushing psychological buttons is honed to the limit.
Nobody does it better than the left.
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