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The Weather Channel Confronts Republicans on Climate Change
Slate ^ | 6/12/2015 | Eric Holthaus

Posted on 06/12/2015 7:48:08 PM PDT by RightGeek

On Wednesday, the Weather Channel launched a dramatic campaign it says is intended to help shift the climate change conversation from science to solutions.

The series of short videos, called Climate 25, is surprisingly political for a venue like the Weather Channel, and most are aimed at making the case for urgent action from a conservative, Republican angle. Among the featured speakers are U.S. Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby (Ret.); Henry Paulson, a former CEO of Goldman Sachs who served as secretary of the treasury under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009; and Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever. At one point, Christine Todd Whitman, the EPA administrator under George W. Bush, addresses Republicans directly, saying, “It’s our issue.”

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I asked the Weather Channel president, David Clark, about the apparent shift toward explicitly engaging conservatives. “We felt that we needed to give a stage to some of the more courageous voices on the right,” he said, despite the fact that “we are not policy experts; we are scientists.”

The Weather Channel’s TV audience skews older and more conservative than the general public, and that’s exactly the people who are most resistant to taking action on climate change, per recent polling data. (Prospectors, a Weather Channel reality show about looking for gold and gems in the Rocky Mountains, was among Republicans’ most beloved in 2014.) With Climate 25, the Weather Channel made a conscious decision to confront these viewers head on, using voices the channel’s executives thought would be relatable.

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In keeping with the often apocalyptic tone of the Weather Channel’s website, most of the messages are framed with bold phrases, like “this is the beginning of real trouble in our world” and “the status quo is long gone.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig; popefrancis; romancatholicism; weatherchannel
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The Weather Channel? Is that still on?
1 posted on 06/12/2015 7:48:08 PM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek

One word. Hubble.


2 posted on 06/12/2015 7:49:31 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: RightGeek
we are scientists

BS

3 posted on 06/12/2015 7:50:23 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: RightGeek
The Hubble Telescope Confronts Warmunists On Climate Change
4 posted on 06/12/2015 7:50:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: RightGeek

ABC said Manhattan would be underwater in June 2015.

I’d say “nothing” worked as a solution.


5 posted on 06/12/2015 7:50:38 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: RightGeek

IIRC, The man who created The Weather Channel said that Global Warming is a fraud.


6 posted on 06/12/2015 7:51:41 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: RightGeek

Solutions:
1. Give up all freedom
2. Live in communist paradise
3. Send all your income to fedgov and live on the few crumbs that Lord Obama graciously decides you deserve


7 posted on 06/12/2015 7:51:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: RightGeek
shift the climate change conversation from science to solutions.

Shifting away from the science because the science isn't working out for them.

8 posted on 06/12/2015 7:51:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: RightGeek

Money grubbing sellouts.


9 posted on 06/12/2015 7:53:19 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: RightGeek

More propaganda from the climate “weepers.” Maybe we should send them to the drought stricken areas so they serve some purpose for humanity. Their tears might solve the water shortage.


10 posted on 06/12/2015 7:54:05 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: RightGeek

I just came here for pics is Stepanie Baberahms


11 posted on 06/12/2015 7:54:08 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: RightGeek

FLASHBACK: ABC’s ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015

- See more, including the video at:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/06/12/flashback-abcs-08-prediction-nyc-under-water-climate-change-june#sthash.TvqX0zPz.dpuf


12 posted on 06/12/2015 7:54:40 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
3. Send all your income to fedgov and live on the few crumbs that Lord Obama graciously decides you deserve

Hey! The Lord Obama's Wagyu steak and his $300-a-bottle non-alcoholic Muslim wine aren't cheap, you HATER!

You should change your screen name to ProtectOurFreedomMcMeanpants...

13 posted on 06/12/2015 7:56:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: RightGeek

The weather channel has been useless for at least a decade. There are plenty of websites where a video of recent radar can be called up in seconds.


14 posted on 06/12/2015 8:00:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: al baby
Stephanie is in the back of the Weather Channel bus. First you have Kait Parker:

And then Jen Carfagno:

Stephanie may be a nice girl, but compared to these two she looks like Mr. Ed.

15 posted on 06/12/2015 8:00:37 PM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: RightGeek
I'd be more impressed if they show us the science rather than even more apocalyptic language.
16 posted on 06/12/2015 8:00:48 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: RightGeek

Yeah, and ABC News had a television special ten years ago saying New York would be underwater by June 2015.


17 posted on 06/12/2015 8:02:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: P-Marlowe

Too bad he has retired, leaving the reigns to a bunch of useful RAT idiots.


18 posted on 06/12/2015 8:03:03 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: RightGeek

-—Henry Paulson, a former CEO of Goldman Sachs

Yeah, I’m going to listen carefully to the tarpmeister. Hey Hank get lost.


19 posted on 06/12/2015 8:04:09 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: Paladin2
Accuweather is coming after The Weather Channel:

Link here

20 posted on 06/12/2015 8:05:14 PM PDT by FlJoePa
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