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To: cogitator

here is her initial statement:

"Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. 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. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement. "


12 posted on 01/19/2007 8:00:27 AM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow
It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement. "

Note that hurricanes DO rotate clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. That's just a real dumb statement from someone with a doctorate in meteorology, or climatology, or whatever.

16 posted on 01/19/2007 8:04:18 AM PST by bcsco
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To: DBrow
"Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. 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. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement."

But of course! Scientists are completely unbiased, impartial people with absolutely no ideological agendas or axes to grind whatsoever. In fact, they are the only human beings in existence who see Absolute Truth. How dare anyone question them? (Especially if they don't question what they say about other things!)

48 posted on 01/19/2007 8:37:06 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Shallach 'et-`ammi, veya`avduni!!!")
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