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17 Jun 08 - All three staff
meteorologists at KLTV in the Tyler-Longview-Jacksonville area of
Northeast Texas delivered an on-air rebuttal last November of the idea
that humans are changing the earth's climate.
Meteorologist Grant Dade: "Is the Earth warming? Yes, I think it is. But
is man causing that? No. It's a simple climate cycle our climate goes
through over thousands of years."
One of his KLTV colleagues said Earth "will not be warming anymore" in
20 to 30 years. The station's third weathercaster suggested that
increased attention to manmade climate change was being driven by
scientists who want "grant money."
Such skeptical pronouncements appear to be fairly common among TV
meteorologists and weathercasters, more the rule than the exception.
John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel and now a weathercaster for
San Diego's independent KUSI, argues forcefully that manmade global
warming is "the greatest scam in history"
Neil Frank, the 25-year director of the National Hurricane Center,
recently retired after 21 years as chief meteorologist at Houston's CBS
affiliate, KHOU, in 2006 told the Washington Post that it is "a hoax"
and that greenhouse emissions actually may help what he called "a carbon
dioxide-starved world."
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported in May that Minneapolis
forecasters are speaking out on the issue and "most of them are landing
on the side of the skeptics."
See entire article By Bill Dawson:
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/features/0608_tv.htm
Thanks to Tom Meyer for this link
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