A group of climate change activists have started a crusade to expose climate change "denyers" and change the meterological profession into one that
spouts the dogma of man-made global warming to their viewing audience.
Global warming activists seek to purge ‘deniers’ among local weathermen
Concerned that too many “deniers” are in the meteorology business, global warming activists this month launched a campaign to recruit local
weathermen to hop aboard the alarmism bandwagon and expose those who are not fully convinced that the world is facing man-made doom.
The Forecast the Facts campaign — led by 350.org, the League of Conservation Voters and the Citizen Engagement Lab — is pushing for more of a
focus on global warming in weather forecasts, and is highlighting the many meteorologists who do not share their beliefs.
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Here's what they are saying about local weathermen;
But when most Americans tune into their local weather report, they won't hear a peep about climate change. Why? Because the majority of TV
meteorologists don't believe in it. That's right: the professionals most responsible for informing the public about the weather are systematically
missing the most important weather story of our lifetime.
With over 1,000 TV meteorologists across the country, the level of denial varies widely. Some TV meteorologists spout outright falsehoods on air--like
the idea that the earth is actually cooling, or that global warming is caused by sunspots (not Co2 and other greenhouse gasses.) In other cases, they
cover increasingly extreme weather events like droughts, wild fires, flooding, and winter storms, without ever mentioning the scientific consensus
that climate change is making these events more likely and more intense. It's the equivalent of a news anchor reporting on a string of murders
without saying that there is a suspect in custody.
Forcast the facts
A recent poll showed that 63% of weather forcasters don't fall for the global warming hype, with only 31% believing that human activity is the cause
and this is what has gotten this group's panties in a bunch.
So far, the campaign has identified 55 “deniers” in the meteorologist community and are looking for more. They define “deniers” as
“anyone who expressly refutes the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change: that it is real, largely caused by humans, and already
having profound impacts on our world.”
“We track the views of meteorologists through their on-air statements, blog posts, social media activity, public appearances, interviews, and
interactions with viewers,” the campaign explains.
The Houston Chronicle noted that meteorologists mostly track short periods of weather, not long-term climate trends.
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I think they make a pretty good point when they point out that local weathermen aren't trained to track long term weather. Asking them to speak out
on an area outside their expertise seems disingenuous. They want to turn every weather related story into a part of the narritave that our planet is
turning against us and we should all be on the verge of panic over the coming global catastrophy. Talk about sensationalism.
I remember a local weather guy who lost his job because he over-hyped every storm to come along as being the "storm of the century". After a while
the viewers got tired of him crying wolf and sent him packing. He came back about 5 years later, a much humbler and restrained forcaster.
Local weathermen (yeah, I know they're mostly women these days
) should stick to what they know about; the local weather patterns and telling me
if the weather will be nice tomorrow or not. They have no business pushing their global warming agenda down their viewer's throats, whether they are
for or against it.
For this group to suggest otherwise shows the desperation of those who see the public wakeing up to the lies the scientific "establishment" has been
spouting at them for all those years.
