Great example of how the “progressives” operate. The Forecast the Facts campaign has taken to identifying “deniers” among television weathermen. They want local weather reporters to begin talking about the impact of global warming in local weather forecasts. Those who won’t, or, God forbid, disagree with the party line, are outed as deniers.
“Our goal is nothing short of changing how the entire profession of meteorology tackles the issue of climate change,” the group explains on their website. “We’ll empower everyday people to make sure meteorologists understand that their viewers are counting on them to get this story right, and that those who continue to shirk their professional responsibility will be held accountable.”
The Washington Post says the reason for the campaign is a 2010 George Mason University surveys, which found that 63% of television weathermen think that global warming is a product of natural causes, while 31% believe it is from human activity.
The group claims to have identified 55 “deniers” in the meteorologist community and are looking for more. A denier is “anyone who expressly refutes the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change: that it is real, largely caused by humans, and already having profound impacts on our world.”
“We track the views of meteorologists through their on-air statements, blog posts, social media activity, public appearances, interviews, and interactions with viewers,” the website says.
Typically, they have everything all wrong-meteorologists deal with short term weather forecasts; it’s really climatologists they’re mad at. That aside, it’s not about open debate; can we put that to rest, please? Years ago the hippies, the original progressives, had this quaint saying-“I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend with my life your right to say it.” (I know they weren’t the first to use it.) Then as the left grew in power that changed to, “Shut up and think like I do or else.”
