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“You might mention this again,” advises Capt. John. Yes; the list of things said to be caused by global warming has blown out of late. In other warbal gloming news:
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 Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program “The Climate Code,” is advocating that the American Meteorological Society revoke their “Seal of Approval” for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
You don’t need a weatherman to ... know.
(Via Bill R.)
I put full faith and confidence in individuals that can’t accurately predict the weather in 48 hours to be able to predict average global temperatures in 100 years.
Posted by Hoodlumman on 2007 01 18 at 11:17 AM • permalinkSpeaking of Woebel Glooming heresy, I notice that Scott Burgess is back on deck!
I googled on Heidi Cullen and found this on her intro page at the Weather Channel®:
Dr. Heidi Cullen is the climate expert at The Weather Channel® and host of the program The Climate Code with Dr. Heidi Cullen. Since the program’s launch in October, Dr. Cullen has interviewed leading scientists and environmentalists including Ted Turner, Virgin-founder and Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, and Professor Jeff Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia.
Faced with such high powered scientific expertise, we might as well give up.
#8 Rob: Whoa! Pretty big transformation. From toothy, back-packing, grunge-haired hippy to prim, corporate-issue, weather obergruppenfuehrer, just like that!
Say, when will the weather fraternity be issued uniforms? You know, black tunics, black military-style jodhpurs, jackboots, and armbands featuring Al Gore’s picture?
The world is a dangerous place. You’ve got twits like Heidi Cullen trying to criminalize scientific differences of opinion, Democrats in the U.S. trying to criminalize political differences, and Muslim fanatics and their fellow-travelers trying to politicize criminal differences. Frankly, I see myself ultimately being put in a concentration camp for smokers.
Say, when will the weather fraternity be issued uniforms? You know, black tunics, black military-style jodhpurs, jackboots, and armbands featuring Al Gore’s picture?
No, no, no. The armbands will have little hurricanes on them. Gore’s picture will merely have to be displayed prominently in every home and workspace.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 18 at 12:40 PM • permalinkAs I noted yesterday:
Nobody expects the Glowball Warmening Inquisistion!!!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 01:08 PM • permalinkSpeaking of Al, where is he?
I’m freezing in Phoenix, my giant ficus tree is black. I’m afraid to go out in public for fear that Al is lurking somewhere.
Posted by tabitharuth on 2007 01 18 at 01:08 PM • permalinkAnother reason to like Joe Bastardi, paco.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 01:18 PM • permalinkyojimbo—I don’t even remember what 20 feels like.
The sad thing is half my kids don’t even have coats.
Maybe Al has some kind of government program to give coats to kids frozen by global warming.
Posted by tabitharuth on 2007 01 18 at 01:54 PM • permalinkWouldn’t you love to be in the Weather Channnel’s break room when Cullen’s eating her yogurt and salad, and Bastardi walks in? Talk about a cold front.
The Weather Channel used to have some Grade-A weatherfoxes, but they all seem to be porking out. The most entertaining thing about it now is Jim “Ladies and gentlemen, I can say with no exagerration that I’m standing in the middle of the most devastating storm in all of human history” Santoro and his gratuitously grave and dramatic storm-swept location shots. I’m waiting for a flying piece of corrugated tin roofing to shear his head off someday.
And a bit of irony here is that several years ago, the host of Canada’s Discovery Channel’s flagship show was mocking a group of American TV weathermen (I can’t recall the group’s name) for being sceptical about global warming and deriding them as ‘just being TV weather readers.’
Viva la Resistance, paco! (And blame Canada for not meeting its Kyoto goals and therefore destroying the world.)
Define “porking out”, Dave S, please. Oh, you meant “putting on weight”. Never mind. Something else came to [my] mind.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 18 at 05:54 PM • permalinkI have yet to have a global warming “true believer” tell me why over the past hundreds and thousands of years, before any significant or even detectable human influence, there were periods where carbon dioxide and temperature levels were well above those of recent experience.
The first question I always ask when someone says something like “we haven’t seen temperatures like this since 1872” is “so what was going on in 1872?” It’s not that they don’t know the answer (they’re not expected to), it’s that they don’t even understand the implication of the question.
The folks at the University of Chicago have moved the Doomsday Clock forward two minutes to five minutes to midnight:
In a statement supporting the decision to move the hand of the Doomsday Clock, the BAS Board focused on two major sources of catastrophe: the perils of 27,000 nuclear weapons, 2000 of them ready to launch within minutes; and the destruction of human habitats from climate change.
Stephen Hawking: “As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change.”
Sir Martin Rees: “Nuclear weapons still pose the most catastrophic and immediate threat to humanity, but climate change and emerging technologies in the life sciences also have the potential to end civilization as we know it.”
It’s getting awfully thick out there (although Rees’ “emerging technologies in the life sciences” is intriguing).
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 01 18 at 06:24 PM • permalink#9
Say, when will the weather fraternity be issued uniforms? You know, black tunics, black military-style jodhpurs, jackboots…could the weather chicks use a riding crop for a pointer, because I have this recurring…
Frankly, I see myself ultimately being put in a concentration camp for smokers. I, for one, shall be shot whilst trying to escape.#31 Penguin said: “Hey Paco, good luck when the priests of warming find a Joe McCarthy type who will purge the government of warming skeptics in a series of public hearings. I hear they’ve already got a shaming list of 92 names of government employees they’re going to make public…. “
I will go the gallows with a defiant smile. As Terry Lane might say, “It is a much, much better thing that I’m doing now, than ever came down the pike before”.
#8- that new nuclear-enhanced version of Photoshop is the ducks guts, isn’t it?
Take a gander at what it did for Margo Kingston.
The titanium-lined goggles you have to wear for the before shots are uncomfortable, but worth the trouble.
I believe Ms. Cullen should host a new feature of the Weather Channel, a period in which the faces of “climate skeptics” could be shown and the viewers could express their totally reasonable feelings toward them, with Heidi offering hints about phraseology.
Timing is important, of course. If the episode is too short the effect will be lost, but if it’s too long it will cut into revenue-generating commercial time. Two minutes should be about right…
Regards,
RicDid Ms Cullen predict it would be raining weather satellites?
You bastard sceptics are going to kill the planet.
You should defer to us highly edumacated weathermen. We know better than you. What would you know about weather? You just stand around in it getting wet. You talk about it, but you know nothing about it. Don’t worry your pretty little head thinking about the weather - let us do the thinking for you.
We report it. We read numbers out. We have much bigger maps than you do and they have fancy graphics and wavy lines and we can present both the maximus and minimumulum temperature on the same map at the same time. We have pointers. We get paid a lot of money for three minutes work - we must be smarter than you. We know what humidity is and you don’t - nah nah nah.
We deserve some respect. Beside us, you are intellectual dwarves. You are scientific pygmies. You are height-challenged observers of how cold it gets at night. You are an ant in the afterbirth. You are not fit to wipe the spittle from my shoes.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 19 at 08:09 AM • permalinkSUPPRESS DISSENT
Isn’t that the code for -“pressurize the flamethrowers and prepare to move out!” ?
If it is, we dang well better be shooting the things off this time. Last time they sat around all pressurized for too long and started leaking flame goo all over everything.
I am soooo not going to clean that kind of mess up again. I’m all out of fire proof suits. And those suites are hot and give me a heat rash.
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