{"id":11312,"date":"2012-02-02T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2012-02-02T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:48:50","slug":"storm-over-climate-change-among-weather-forecasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/02\/storm-over-climate-change-among-weather-forecasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm over climate change among weather forecasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/02\/us-climate-weather-idUSTRE81120K20120202\">reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s climates.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s founder John Coleman are vocal in their opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the greatest scam in history,&#8221; wrote Coleman, one of the first meteorologists to publicly express doubts about climate change, on his blog in 2007. &#8220;I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; it is a SCAM&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The climate change controversy has split the American Meteorological Society, whose members are Americans&#8217; prime source of news about weather and climate&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/02\/us-climate-weather-idUSTRE81120K20120202\">Read the entire Reuters report.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/numyk4DWcPs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-2Ws","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}