“The Weather Channel� Mess

[Tiger in Spain 0]

“The Weather Channel” Mess

January 18, 2007, 5:45 pm | James Spann | Op/Ed

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh?

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. 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.

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.

Link w/some great myth debunking information

[otterinbham 0]

Well, it makes for great copy.

Look, a rise in global temperatures is a fact. However, it is also a fact that global temperatures have been higher during recorded history such as around the Year 0 and the year 1000. They did not have thermometers at that time, but we know this from other sources, such as acrcheological proof of the presence of trees on Iceland and subsistence agriculture in Greenland, both of which are impossibilities today.

It really doesn't help the Global Warming crowd when they play fast and loose with facts, either. For example, while everybody gets concerned about the diminishing icecap in the Arctic, nobody seems to broach the fact that the Antarctic ice cap has increased in size over the past 35 years, both in total snowmass and in overall size. Further, temperatures at the South Pole are actually colder than at any time in the past fifty years.

Further, scientists who study the sun note that it's output of energy varies in a cyclical pattern, rather than simply remain constant.

So, while I certainly think that it's something to be watched, I certainly don't think it's time to press the cotton-picking panic button. I believe what really is driving this hoopla is that environmental groups see Global Warming as a golden opportunity to push an environmental agenda--and the facts and critics be damned.

[AURaptor 1,126]

Were it not for the Islamic nutcases trying to destroy civilization and usher the rest of humanity back into the 7th century, the debate over global warming would be far more intense. In fact, returning us to a pre- Indutrial age is about the 1 thing both Islamo zealots and Enviromental whackos have in common.