Posted on 03/25/2007 8:30:50 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Heidi Cullen, a Weather Channel meteorologist who hosts the station's alarmist weekly program The Climate Code, created a media stir on January 18 by calling on the American Meteorological Society (AMS) to decertify meteorologists who disagree with her alarmist global warming views.
Politically Correct Warming
On her Weather Channel Web log, Cullen stated, "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."
Added Cullen, "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."
Nuremberg Trials
Cullen's aggressive remarks continued a recent trend of global warming alarmists seeking vengeance on scientists who disagree with their theories. In 2006 Dave Roberts, prominently featured in the December 17, 2006 episode of Cullen's The Climate Code, called for Nuremburg-style trials to convict and execute global warming skeptics.
Similarly, university-appointed state climatologists in Delaware, Oregon, and Virginia have been threatened with dismissal from their positions because they have raised questions about suspect global warming assertions. (See story, page 10.)
Scientific Method Ignored
Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, noted the irony of scientists calling for draconian reprisals against skeptics of global warming alarmism.
"The entire scientific method is built upon the enormous value of skepticism," Burnett said. "Good science depends on skeptical voices challenging the dominant belief until theory is proven to be fact. Until and unless all reasonable doubt has been removed from a scientific theory, scientific challenge and debate is essential to the scientific process and, ultimately, human well-being. History has certainly proven that over and over again.
"With this in mind, what they should be doing is stripping away the credentials of those who seek to stifle scientific debate. Those who seek to stifle scientific debate are the true enemies of science," Burnett added.
Eco-Money OK
Writing on the Web site of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Marc Morano, communications director for U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), noted a deep irony in claims by global warming alarmists that skeptical scientists are merely pandering for industry dollars.
Morano wrote, "The well-heeled environmental lobbying groups have massive operating budgets compared to groups that express global warming skepticism. The Sierra Club Foundation 2004 budget was $91 million and the Natural Resources Defense Council had a $57 million budget for the same year. Compare that to the often-media-derided Competitive Enterprise Institute's small $3.6 million annual budget."
Burnett concurred. "Scientists and policy analysts seeking to profit economically from their position on global warming have a very easy choice to make. All the big money from government grants, non-government organizations, and foundation gifts is dependent upon the perpetuation of global warming fears," Burnett observed.
Dr. John Dale Dunn (jddmdjd@web-access.net), an inactive attorney, teaches emergency medicine at Fort Hood, Texas and is a member of the Science and Policy Advisory Board of the American Council on Science and Health.
I loved Mythbuster before but Kari is a welcome addition. I watch her in between things getting dropped and blown-up.
This is why I quit watching it. My Comcast cable has two weather channels, the regular one, on 27 and one on 101 that just runs the animated forecasts, no anchors, no talking heads, with some inoffensive music in the background. It gives the local weather all the time. Much better than having to listen to the groupthink indoctrination while waiting for the local forecast on the 8s.
Looks like Gore liked the Heidi photo.
That's why she's on the show.
You CAN'T have her! She's mine! I saw her first!
[Other sexist ranting deleted]
...oh, alright. My wife won't let me.
Cheers!
That is a brainless statement for you to make. If you keep it up you really will scrape your knuckles on the ground.
The NAZIS are back... and this time they are a bunch of liberals weanies.
I love Discovery channel but I agree with you and others that they have gone overboard on the global warming hype. They cannot do a show on anything that it is not mentioned.
Where would a guy go to meet some of them?
Cheers!
BTW, try this site for screenshots of other attractive TV talent -- Mario Bartiromo, Weather Channel, various Fox News Babes.
Cheers!
Ping
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Have you watched "Deadliest Catch?" It's my only "must-see TV" show and there's no mention of Global Warming at all.
Yes, I love that show! I don't think I have ever heard them talking about global warming during that one but I know some of those guys would not mind a little warming when the decks freeze over.
Some of the ways they find to interject global warming hype into their programming is downright silly. Some of the narration will be amusing in twenty years when it is shown to be false science.
I am hopefully going to Resurrection Bay for some salmon fishing this summer!
Actually a crew member on Deadliest Catch did mention global warming, he said he wished some of that global warming would be sent their way. It is a great show, I agree.
Season 3 starts on April 3 at 9 Eastern. I can hardly wait. My DVR is already ready to go. I won't be able to watch it "live" because the Mets are on at 8, and let's just say I have my priorities. ;-)
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