Posted on 10/16/2015 9:41:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
France’s most famous weatherman has been sent on “forced holiday” by state TV France Télévisions after releasing a book in which he accuses climatologists of “taking the world hostage”.
Philippe Verdier, has become a well known face in France thanks to his nightly weather bulletins to around five million French people on the channel France 2.
The “Monsieur Météo” was conspicuous by his absence this week after apparently being sent on a “forced holiday” by his bosses, with his future as a weatherman up in the air, as he stands accused of being a climate sceptic.
Verdier has been taken off air after releasing a book accusing the world’s leading climatologists and political leaders of using dodgy data to convince the public about climate change.
In a promotional video Verdier says: “Every night I address five million French people to talk to you about the wind, the clouds and the sun.
“And yet there is something important, very important that I haven’t been able to tell you, because it’s neither the time nor the place to do so," he said.
“We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change – a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear," says Verdier who denies he is a climate sceptic.
Verdier says there are scientists who are “manipulated and politicised… who are serving only their image,” a “blinded” media and “commercial NGOs and religions looking for new creeds”.
That was enough to persuade Verdier’s bosses to take him off air. While rumours of what punishment he could face swirl around the French media, France 2 has so far refused to comment.
“He’s on holiday,” the channel said, without specifying when he would return.
For his part Verdier told RTL radio "I received a letter telling me not to come. I'm in shock."
His book, heavily criticised by Le Monde newspaper for being full of “errors,” also includes a chapter about the positive impact of climate change on France, in which he evokes better wine harvests and lower death rates in winter and warmer weather attracting tourists.
In it he writes: “We are undoubtedly on a plateau in terms of warming and the cyclical variability of the climate doesn’t not allow us to envisage if the natural rhythm will tomorrow lead us towards a fall, a stagnation or a rise (in temperature).”
Perhaps Verdier would have got away with his outspoken statement if France and the French government hadn’t been in the middle of preparing for the crucial UN climate change conference in December.
The success of the conference is seen as vital not just to François Hollande’s presidency but to the image of France itself.
Much of the work that goes into preparing for the conference is being carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organisation that Verdier has taken particular umbrage against.
Verdier also wrote a critical letter to Hollande, lambasting the president for pretending to save the planet.
It was published by a French news site which further riled his bosses at France 2.
Verdier accepts that he has caused problems for his employer given that the state owns France Televisions.
He said he was moved to write the book after France’s Foreign Minister held a meeting of weather presenters and asked them to stress climate change in the broadcasts.
“What is shameful is this pressure placed on us to say that if we don’t hurry, it’ll be the apocalypse,” he said.
Sacre bleu! So, when will the gendarmes be sent to cuff this blasphemere?
Heretic!! Burn him at the stake for blasphemy against the religion of global climate change.
Ah. The Nazis are back in charge of France.
“Conform, or be cast out.”
God Bless you, Philippe.
Telling the truth in a world run by liars is dangerous... Hats off to this good man...
Climate change may be happening, just not at the predicted rates.
And carbon dioxide is NOT the sole driving agent, or even a significant factor, in any way affecting the rise or fall of atmospheric temperatures.
There is no “settled science” involved. Science, by definition, can NEVER be settled.
Exactly the term !
Aided ,abetted and faciltated by the enemedia .
The French give their temperatures in Fahrenheit?
Sacre Bleu! The metric system was INVENTED there.
Those are Celsius temperatures, probably (hopefully) from the middle of summer! I never saw a Fahrenheit temp in France, or any other British measure, for that matter.
they no doubt consider him a terrorist for denying that man is causing climate change
Yes, those are hot summer temperatures. Notice the fan image in the lower right of the picture.
So the France 2 network surrenders to the ‘Global Warming’ criminals? Just being French, I suppose.
George Orwell
“The Earth is square. Because we say so. YOU are ordered to believe OUR science, not actual Science, which we have deemed to be a lie.”
~The Government
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
~G. Orwell
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Warming is cooling. Cooling is proof of warming”
~Orwell and Climate Change “scientists”
“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.”
Ismail Haniyeh
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.”
~Orwell and the DNC (DNC portion paraphrased)
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (we are in the beginning of stage two when it comes to exposing the Global Warming Hoax)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
“I want you to give up all your money and freedoms to the government in the name of Global Warming/Disruptification/Climate Change or whatever we're calling it this week. You WILL be jailed if you attempt to act upon your former right to free speech or to inflict actual Science upon our Climate Change Scam.
I will use the RICO laws in the most ironic way possible. My scammers and I will use our fraud against you to put you away for fraud.”
(Paraphrased)
~Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI and Bizzaro World)
Oh good grief! Weather does not get that hot in Celsius anywhere. Could this be some other datum like air pressure?
And didn’t they “lose” a lot of the original data?
I read “blasmosphere”....
interesting word that would be...
Oh wait, sorry I was thinking about a different diagram that showed numbers up to 100 without indicating units. Probabilities of precipitation there?
My bad, look before leap. That’s Celsius on the diagram.
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