“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
Reuters reports,
But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate their viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth’s climates.
Only 19 percent of U.S. meteorologists saw human influences as the sole driver of climate change in a 2011 survey. And some, like the Weather Channel’s founder John Coleman are vocal in their opposition.
“It is the greatest scam in history,” wrote Coleman, one of the first meteorologists to publicly express doubts about climate change, on his blog in 2007. “I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; it is a SCAM”.
The climate change controversy has split the American Meteorological Society, whose members are Americans’ prime source of news about weather and climate…
Read the entire Reuters report.
I’ll listen to the group with the better track record of predicting the future.
Reuter’s sense of ‘balance’ in journalism is totally unhinged.