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WEATHER CHANNEL ABSURDITY
Neal Nuze ^ | 01/18/07 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 01/19/2007 8:09:00 AM PST by NotchJohnson

WEATHER CHANNEL ABSURDITY

Perhaps the most bizarre story of the week comes from Weather Channel Meteobabe Heidi Cullen. Apparently she hosts a show called "The Climate Code."

Let's all bask for a moment in the extremely clever play on "The DaVinci Code" popularity.

OK .. That's enough. Back to Hysterical Heidi. Cullen wants the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the group that certifies TV weathermen, to decertify any weatherman who dares to question the "fact" that man is causing catastrophic global climate change.

Note, please, that the phrase "Global warming" is no longer really in vogue. After all ... ice just destroyed much of California's citrus crop. So the word now is "climate change."

Here's what Cullen had to say on her blog:

"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."

To Cullen the "fundamental science of climate change" is that global warming is being caused by man. She completely discounts cyclical weather patterns which have been proven by science. The earth has been this warm in the past .. warmer .. many times. Cullen doesn't explain why. By the way ... it has been pointed out that hurricanes do rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere -- but why be picky.

Here's another blog you might be interested in. The Weather Blog. This is from AMC certified Meteorologist James Spann. He says that he does not know of a single TV Meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. There are some excellent comments posted to Spann's blog. A good read.

Don't you just love a good juicy controversy?


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; heidicullen; weatherchanel
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To: KoRn

$5.00 for a year with NO ads. Well worth the cost. They also have people with home weather stations sending feeds to them, so you can see real time local weather.


21 posted on 01/19/2007 8:57:21 AM PST by PogySailor (Media bias? What media bias)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

"All of the women are constantly rotating in and out of pregnancy. I wonder if it is somehow a job requirement."

What do you think all those meteorologists do during the commercial breaks? Those people breed like rabbits.


22 posted on 01/19/2007 9:06:20 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: Old Professer
She may have a degree in global warming, but is it a scientific degree.Her bachelor's degree is in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College. Here are some more comments from world net daily:

"The chief martyr for the new "emotional" approach to broadcasting at The Weather Channel is Dr. Heidi Cullen, who serves as the network's cheerleader for global warming hysteria. Cullen's supposed expertise on climatology includes, among other things, earning a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College. One must indeed have to believe in the mystical to accept anything Ms. Cullen has to say about climatology:
23 posted on 01/19/2007 9:08:00 AM PST by Barnyard
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Years back, husband and I noticed a trend on The Weather Channel. All of the women are constantly rotating in and out of pregnancy. I wonder if it is somehow a job requirement.


"So as you can see Jim, we have Low pressure coming up from the southeast, and because of selfish Americans driving SUVs which cause Global Warming, we have windy conditions across the great plains....."

24 posted on 01/19/2007 9:08:37 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Great visual! LOL


25 posted on 01/19/2007 9:09:46 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: NotchJohnson
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."

This mental midget is both ignorant and a dissimulating twit.
Hurricanes, typhoons, same thing, different places. In the Southern Hemisphere they do rotate clockwise.

Selective fear mongering based on an exaggerated sense of self-worth. They have no clue how irrelevant and silly they come across.

The science of global warming? Oh boy.
I hope her fans watch other real-world channels.

26 posted on 01/19/2007 9:11:04 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: SueRae

Yes! I've never watched "It Could Happen Tomorrow", I've only briefly seen previews before I hit the button to another channel. I've often wondered how badly that show must scare small children. Like we don't have enough to worry about!


27 posted on 01/19/2007 9:11:27 AM PST by fishergirl (Proud mom of an Iraq war veteran - to all our veterans Thank You and God Bless)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Alexandra Steele always gives me the creeps. When I first saw her, I thought she was kinda 'hot' so to speak. But it didn't take long to realize that everything about her was fake and that she really didn't belong on the Weather Channel.

Mankind has been ACCURATELY recording weather for what, 200 years? And still, the Al Gore fan club members still INSIST that global warming is a) happening and b) mankind's fault. The simple fact that the geographic record documents countless shifts in weather patterns and climate over thousands of years is an inconvenient reality to Steele and her ilk.

Just my humble opinion, of course.


28 posted on 01/19/2007 9:15:18 AM PST by Skywarner (The U.S. Armed Forces... Producers of FREEDOM for over 200 years!!)
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To: Barnyard
Her bachelor's degree is in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College.

Why am I not surprised?
Forty years ago, that was a certain track for jobs in fast food or shoe sales.
Just saying...

29 posted on 01/19/2007 9:15:45 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: NotchJohnson

As I read this thread, Rush Limbaugh is blasting her into the nether regions of the stratosphere. "There's no science here, it's pure politics", says Limbaugh.


30 posted on 01/19/2007 9:18:28 AM PST by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: NotchJohnson
She either doesn't have a degree in any science related field or got one while on her knees.

The scientific method dictates that one gather all information from any experiment before forming so much as a theory. Even before forming a hypothesis, one must get results from at least two observable facts.
This woman is whacked.

31 posted on 01/19/2007 9:20:10 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
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To: Skywarner
Here you go.
Most people have a firm grasp of reality:

STATIC CLIMATE IS IMPOSSIBLE

32 posted on 01/19/2007 9:24:02 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: bcsco
I have been watching the Weather Channel over the years, and have seen it go down the liberal path...I find the men to be good guys, and present a good review....the others, well, I for one, am bored with all the lectures, that I get from the women on that channel....thanks to the Internet, I get my weather from "reliable, non-lecturing sources"
33 posted on 01/19/2007 9:25:01 AM PST by thinking
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To: feedback doctor

Also good and NO ADS:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov


34 posted on 01/19/2007 9:25:09 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692)
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To: NotchJohnson

Heidi, you ignorant sl...


35 posted on 01/19/2007 9:26:23 AM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

it is Dr. Cullen...


36 posted on 01/19/2007 9:26:49 AM PST by thinking
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To: NotchJohnson

Well what'd you expect? Isn't TWC part of the CNN empire?


37 posted on 01/19/2007 9:28:46 AM PST by 38special (I mean come'on.)
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To: Lazamataz

The Weather Channel has gone to hell over the pasy few years. it wouldbe a greattime for a competing
Weather Channel. The damn weekend show looks like the set from the view - Syrupy crap posing as realistic discussion.


38 posted on 01/19/2007 9:29:12 AM PST by ohioman
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To: halo66

I agree. Jim Cantori is the best one left.


39 posted on 01/19/2007 9:30:22 AM PST by ohioman
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To: NotchJohnson

We have a local meteorologist by the name of Kevin Williams who doesn't buy into the man-made climate change thing at all. Here's a quote from him:

“We should be thankful for the ‘greenhouse effect,’” he says. “Without it, our planet would be a lifeless rock.”

-Kevin Williams


40 posted on 01/19/2007 9:32:20 AM PST by rochester_veteran (born and raised in rachacha!)
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