John Coleman, the founder
of The Weather Channel and the original weatherman on Good Morning America:
"There isn't any climate crisis," he said. "It's totally
manufactured."
Meteorologists are
notoriously reluctant to accept climate change. Why so? Theirs is a profession
that studies the weather, which is akin to what climate scientists do by
studying the weather over relatively long periods. Of course, they are not as
educated as climate scientists who have PhD's in their field, while many
meteorologists have college degrees unrelated to meteorology. Meteorologists
know the pitfalls of being wrong when making a forecast, however, they do not
seem to realize that the conclusions of climate scientists are not the same as
saying there is a 50% chance of precipitation tomorrow. The International Panel
on Climate Change or IPCC put a probability that it is more than 90% likely
that man is causing climate change. Do meteorologists, weathermen to use a more
prosaic term, just feel inferior to climate scientists or just why are they so
dismissive about climate change?
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