Back in July or so, I wrote that global warming denial was essentially being treated the same as Holocaust denial, and that global warming skeptics were being written out of the discussion.
While feedback from that piece was neither swift nor existent, I bring it up again thanks to some comments from Heidi Cullen, the Weather Channel's resident global-warming alarmist. (You can catch Dr. Cullen's "The Climate Code" on the Weather Channel on Sunday afternoons or sometime in the middle of the night - it's Nielsen gold!) Anyway, she said on December 21:
If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval.
To Dr. Cullen's credit, however, there is a link in the blog's sidebar to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works blog that blasts her comments. Pretty convincingly, too, if you ask me, and good for her for linking it regardless.
But this business of drumming out of the AMS a meteorologist who doesn't march in lockstep with the rest of the Chicken Little crowd is a bit alarming, and even a little bit irresponsible.
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