The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.
The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program “The Climate Code,” is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their “Seal of Approval” for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
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Cullen’s call for decertification of TV weatherman who do not agree with her global warming assessment follows a year (2006) in which the media, Hollywood and environmentalists tried their hardest to demonize scientific skeptics of manmade global warming. Scott Pelley, CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent, compared skeptics of global warming to “Holocaust deniers” and former Vice President turned foreign lobbyist Al Gore has repeatedly referred to skeptics as “global warming deniers.”
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Cullen’s call for suppressing scientific dissent comes at a time when many skeptical scientists affiliated with Universities have essentially been silenced over fears of loss of tenure and the withdrawal of research grant money. The United Nations Inner Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process has also steadily pushed scientists away who hold inconvenient skeptical views and reject the alarmist conclusions presented in the IPCC’s summary for policymakers.
There’s that “consensus” we keep hearing about.
Update – A challenge for Al Gore – declined;
Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Today he is in Denmark to disseminate this message. But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground. It should be based on the best facts, not just the convenient ones. This was the background for the biggest Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to set up an investigative interview with Mr. Gore. And for this, the paper thought it would be obvious to team up with Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who has provided one of the clearest counterpoints to Mr. Gore’s tune.
The interview had been scheduled for months. Mr. Gore’s agent yesterday thought Gore-meets-Lomborg would be great. Yet an hour later, he came back to tell us that Bjorn Lomborg should be excluded from the interview because he’s been very critical of Mr. Gore’s message about global warming and has questioned Mr. Gore’s evenhandedness. According to the agent, Mr. Gore only wanted to have questions about his book and documentary, and only asked by a reporter. These conditions were immediately accepted by Jyllands-Posten. Yet an hour later we received an email from the agent saying that the interview was now cancelled. What happened?
Gee what happened to A Quantum Liberal?
When truth is told it seems the lying liberanos either scream loader or disappear.
Both Drudge and Rush had comments on this today.
Rush really takes off on algore for not doing an interview. Don’t let truth get in the way of facts.
I can’t see much difference between the modern environmental activist and the muslim extremist.
Both live in fantasy worlds ruled with fear and hate but having little real substance that withstands critical scrutiny. They are viciously intolerant of differing viewpoints and seek to silence opposition. Lies and dirty tricks are just and necessary tools of the trade. Total control of everyone’s daily existence is their ultimate goal.
Any wonder why lefty moonbats don’t push hard on questions regarding Islamic radical behaviour? Maybe they already understand each other too well.
Jose
The difference being is the Church of Global Warming and the those that don’t believe evolution is that the anti-evolutionists want to change a curriculum your church wants to collapse the world economy. I am sure Darwin would see the irony here as your church uses similar tactics he faced which is false data and hysteria to prove the Global warming Gods exists,even going as far a exiling those that don’t “believe” in its doctrine. Good grief you Lefties are so idiotic and delusional they think you can pass off Jeffrey Dahmer as Mister Rodgers to the rest.
Jose, I have a small correction to your last post.
Re: ‘people who still don’t grok evolution’…
It should read, ‘people who still don’t grok the theory of evolution’
There is no missing link. There is no proof a species can evolve into a different species.
Like all leftoids, Jose doesn’t grok anything. It’s worthless debating him.
On cue with the adhomimen. If I were to be as stupid as you consistently claim then refuting me should be easy. Insult isn’t the rebuttal of choice of the more intelligent side of the argument.
Look at the photo on Drudge of the woman/animal found in jungle. That is the future if the wackos get their way.
You been refuted over and over. You just don’t comprehend that fact. Claro?
Insult isn’t the rebuttal of choice of the more intelligent side of the argument.
No Jose, intelligent discourse invovles deleting comments that oppose your view for which you cannot pose a rational rebuttal, or self promotional sock pupetry, any doubts visit glenn greenwalds site.
Ive seen him in fig leaf – he has had no credibility with me since.
Shrinkage?
Ive seen him in fig leaf – he has had no credibility with me since.
Shrinkage?
Joanne(TB) I hear he’s using the psudonym “Mike Oxlong”… apparently to make up for his shortcommings.
Hass jou all bin good ‘lil veder commissars…hass jou tolt your state-issued lies today?
TWC….The Weather Commies
Boycotting this slime ball isn’t good enough…now I’m writing to TWC sponsors and telling them I will boycott their products until they cut the weather soviets ( climate nazis) loose.
Gawd what IS it with this snow bound backwater that every broadcaster has to get on the utopian axe grinding trend?
Why is it that the most cockamamie media Mensheviks think Canadians are fair game for the latest lefty delirium?
Quotes from ANS certified meteorologist James Span:
“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. Here are the basic facts you need to know:
*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.
*The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.
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.”
http://tinyurl.com/2yws6b
These people, predictably, are applauding the weather bunny’s “spunky” attitude:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/weather_channel.php
Here’s what I’ve learned about the anti global-warming position over the last couple of days:
1)Heidi Cullen can’t be a real scientist, because her statements are backed by peer-reviewed science found in thousands of articles in dozens of scientific journals, rather than on the half-assed wisdom that one finds while sitting on barstool in a sportsbar;
2)Global Warming is a myth because God is in control of everything, and your personal salvation is all that matters (no, I’m serious. I’m not making this one up. It’s actually a comment in one of Heidi’s recent blog entries);
3)Cullen is wrong because she fails to take into account planetary alignment, gamma ray bursts, sunspots, and the atmosphere on the moon and on Mars (again, I wish I was joking, but this is a serious comment);
4)We can’t know what temperatures actually were a hundred years ago because they didn’t have flush toilets (ibid.)
5)Global warming is a conspiracy formulated by Hollywood, ecoterrorists, and the Democratic party;
6)All global warming research is really being funded by George Soros as a nefarious way of forcing us to spend money to fight off a disaster that isn’t really going to happen. (Not really sure why anyone would go to the trouble of creating a conspiracy that doesn’t do anything other than cause us to use wind power and drive hybrid vehicles. Oh well…).
Mostly what I’ve learned from visiting countless websites in which people who are not scientists get to run their mouths about global warming is that Americans are roughly as scientifically literate as African Bushmen. I’ve learned that people seem mystified by the fact that warmer weather and changes in climate patterns leads to heavy snowfall in places like…oh, say, Malibu. People are equally mystified that on average, Antartica gets colder in some spots than it is in others. Apparently, these people are also utterly flummoxed by the fact that South Carolina is currently 50 degrees colder than it was six months ago, as geography and seasons are unknown concepts to those who know the “real scoop” from listening to Rush Limbaugh. Remember, Rush is glad that Republicans lost this election cycle because he “no longer has to carry water” for people he didn’t agree with originally. For those who may not quite grasp that, Rush admitted a couple months ago that he routinely lies to you. Maybe it’s time to find a new prophet.