Saturday, June 14, 2008

Why "some of the most prominent" TV meteorologists and weathercasters and state climatologists are skeptics

The Yale Forum - News Note - Oregon Public Broadcasting's 'Forecast Cloudy' Look at Skeptics
A full-length Oregon Public Broadcasting TV documentary, available online, provides an in-depth look at broadcast meteorologists and weathercasters as "skeptics" on the fact and/or causes of climate change over the past several decades.

The "Forecast Cloudy" documentary opens up by asking why "some of the most prominent" TV meteorologists and weathercasters and state climatologists are skeptics when much of the debate over warming "is essentially over."

The documentary - certain to raise the angst of the skeptics community - contrasts weather forecasters as providing a seven-day outlook while climatologists are focusing on 70 years.
Here's the real reason that the meteorologists are appropriately skeptical--they're constantly looking at actual, real-world data, instead of blindly trusting obviously bogus long-term climate models.

The online documentary is here.

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