Forecasting Dogma

Heidi Cullen, the host of the global warming show, The Climate Code, on the Weather Channel, said recently that if a meteorologist denies global warming he should have his credentials taken away.

I can top that: I say burn the unbelievers at the stake! Die, heretic, die! How dare they blaspheme the undeniable truth that warm (or in any way unusual) weather is the direct result of SUV emissions?! The temperature has gone up almost an entire degree Celsius over the last few decades and is almost as warm as it was before the car and airplane were first invented! Obviously we're causing it!

Never mind the melting of the glaciers thousands of years ago that once covered Kansas City. Ignore the volcanic eruptions that easily equal our CO2 production in a single explosion. And just forget the mountain of evidence that says our planet heats up and cools off because of things we can't control like the orbit of the planet and the natural activity of the sun. It's actually your overbearing SUV and your disgusting capitalism that's the problem!

In fact you'd be well off to just skip this article written by meteorologist James Spann, who says he doesn't even know another meteorologist that believes humans cause global warming… unless they get paid to study the human effect on the global climate. I wouldn't waste my time…

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…

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.