Tell me that global warming is not political - Updated


Why can't the global warming crowd tolerate dissent?
So now at least one global warming apologist wants to go after meteorologists who do not toe the line.

A leading climatologist on the Weather Channel in the United States has caused a squall in the industry by arguing that any weather forecaster who dares publicly to question the notion that global warming is a manmade phenomenon should be stripped of their professional certification.

The call was made by Heidi Cullen, host of a weekly global warming programme on the cable network called The Climate Code, and coincides with a stretch of severely off-kilter weather across the US this winter and moves by Democrats to draft strict new legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Specifically, Ms Cullen is suggesting that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revokes the "seal of approval" that it normally extends to broadcast forecasters in the US in cases where they have expressed scepticism about man's role in pushing up planetary temperatures.

"It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather," she wrote in her internet blog. "It's not a political statement... it's just an incorrect statement."

The response has been heated (pun intended). Emphasis added in the final line of the quote.

I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them.

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If you don’t like to listen to me, find another meteorologist with no tie to grant money for research on the subject. I would not listen to anyone that is a politician, a journalist, or someone in science who is generating revenue from this issue.

In fact, I encourage you to listen to WeatherBrains episode number 12, featuring Alabama State Climatologist John Christy, and WeatherBrains episode number 17, featuring Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, one of the most brilliant minds in our science.

WeatherBrains, by the way, is our weekly 30 minute netcast.

I have nothing against “The Weather Channel”, but they have crossed the line into a political and cultural region where I simply won’t go.

Gee, political and cultural and unsupported by science. Where have we heard that before?

But it gets better. Check the wording on this article.

When it comes to squandering the earth's natural resources, residents of this desert land of chilled swimming pools, monster 4x4s and air-conditioned malls are on a par with even the ravenous consumption of Americans, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

That was the opening paragraph of the article. No sign of bias, right?

This particular article can't even get all it's facts straight.

But the oil-rich Emirates is considered a developing country, and even as a signatory to the United Nations' Kyoto protocol on global warming, is not required to cut emissions. The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush administration rejected after taking office in 2001.

President Bill Clinton never even submitted the Kyoto treaty to the Senate for ratification in 1997 because an overwhelming, veto-proof majority of Senators said they would vote against it.

The United States was never bound by the Kyoto protocol. All President Bush did in 2001 was affirm that the U.S. would not honor a treaty that it had not agreed too.

The AP is revising history here.

All this has one point.

Look at who is trying to crush anyone who dares disagree.

Then ask why?

UPDATE - A reader pointed out that quoting three separate articles in one entry was confusing and I needed to show that it was indeed three different articles. So I changed the coloring.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sun - January 21, 2007 at 03:27 PM  Tag


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