The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen says one of the steps to fight global warming is using images to affect people's outlook.
At the "Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge" forum held at Harvard University in Boston, Mass. on April 30, Cullen suggested using Weather.com and Google Earth to add visual elements to promote the cause.
"[I] split my time between The Weather Channel and this think tank in Princeton and one of the things we've been trying to do is work with Google Earth essentially. And for me, coming from The Weather Channel, the most powerful tool that exists is Weather.com and you type in your zip code and you get a forecast out five days."
TWC's Weather.com is one of the most visited Web sites on the Internet. It frequently ranks in the top five of the "News and Media Category Weekly Report" put out by Hitwise, a firm that monitors Web traffic.
An example Cullen used was one of the models she had observed which showed the European heat wave of 2003 becoming more of a common occurrence.
"[I]f you run that model out, in time, and by the year 2050, the summer of 2003 will be happening every other year. And, by the end of the century, 2003 will be a relatively cool summer. And that's what people need to see and say, ‘Oh sh*@! That's bad.'"
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Heidi Cullen----
May 1, 2008 - 16:51 ET by misterbillHeidi Cullen----today's Rachel Carson??????
Let's get everyone fired that disagrees with me Cullen.
Accu Weather
May 1, 2008 - 16:55 ET by River CityMs. Cullen's activism is what prompted my switch to Accuweather.com. I no longer frequent the Weather Channel website for my weather information. She lost a customer last year when she stood on her soap box and advocated for meteorologists to lose their credentials if they didn't drink the global warming kool-aid. She and her network/website don't exist as far as I'm concerned.
"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6-28-04 San Francisco
AccuWeather is highly Recommended
May 1, 2008 - 19:40 ET by PopularTechI've stopped using Weather.com too. AccuWeather does not present the hysteria but rather shows both sides of the Global Warming debate (which does exist) on their Global Warming Center.
This is something simple everyone can do and you still get plent of weather information.
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Heh, I've had AccuWeather's
May 1, 2008 - 19:57 ET by CortillaenHeh, I've had AccuWeather's add-on in my firefox browser for a year or two, now. You can choose how many days to extend the forecasts, what information you want in them, all sorts of stuff. It's easily my favorite add-on just for having my current conditions and 5 day forecast always at my fingertips. Of course, I never did use weather.com, but that's beside the point. </snark>
www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi
we should do that
May 1, 2008 - 17:03 ET by wizardjrWe should put pictures of the people who froze to death in South America last southern winter. We should put pictures of us folks up here in Minnesota freezing our buns off in April. We should put pictures of Anchorage getting record snow fall in April. We sould put pictures of Baghdad getting the first snow on record. We should put pictures of all the 'warming' events that had to go indoors due to cold weather.
It IS time for the truth, just not her "truth". What a fascist moron.
This is rich- a so-called
May 1, 2008 - 17:09 ET by Tim the EnchanterThis is rich- a so-called "climate expert" using propaganda techniques to convince people to support the "cause". Is that how she defended her PhD thesis? Propaganda is only used when the facts aren't there, or whatever facts there are cannot convince. I have to wonder if this "PhD" of hers is real.
Plus, she's another one of those that got whacked good and hard with the ugly stick. Matches her rhetoric.
Cognitive Frost Warning
May 1, 2008 - 17:12 ET by dboHeidi would make a great addition to "The View".
DBO- "The Spew" is already
May 1, 2008 - 17:29 ET by Tim the EnchanterDBO- "The Spew" is already near idiot critical mass. You want to push it completely over the edge?
Heidi Cullen
May 1, 2008 - 17:17 ET by MCPO AirdaleHeidi Cullen and her ilk are the reason I no longer watch the Weather Channel or use their web site. She is among the worst fear mongerers and once suggested that those metorologists that didn't agree with AGW should be stripped of their credentials. Meanwhile, idiots like her are responsible of 40% of the world's population being on the edge of hunger. I'm sure that troubles her. sarc/ *Spit*
I've been watching...
May 1, 2008 - 17:28 ET by PrairieSkyThe Weather Channel since it began. I live in North Dakota, and keeping track of the weather is serious business here, with tornadoes in the summer and 30 degrees below zero with several feet of snow in the winter. But, the turn the channel has taken in the last few years has gotten more and more insufferable, and Heidi Cullen is the WORST!!! I cannot stand her. She is a smug little know-it-all, and she is the main reason why I almost never watch the channel anymore, except to get the local forecast. The specials that The Weather Channel has are often quite good, but have gotten more and more politically correct from the standpoint of the subject of global warming/climate change.
I've heard the channel is for sale, and I just hope that someone with some level of common sense buys it, FAST, and it returns to what it used to be. Just give us the weather, and forget all the global warming preaching, already. That's not what I watch The Weather Channel for.
PS... Your examples are
May 1, 2008 - 17:39 ET by bigtimerPS...
Your examples are the exact reason I quit watching the channel too about two or so years ago now...and I watched for the same reasons you gave to an extent being where I live too.
Smug indeed, and so PC with pushing global warming and all that other jazz...I got sick of it...and haven't looked back.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
bt...Hope springs eternal...
May 1, 2008 - 17:55 ET by PrairieSkyThe Weather Channel creator has come out and blasted the way the channel has changed, so I am hoping that he may have some sway with someone interested in buying the channel. We'll see.
TWC's future looks worse
May 1, 2008 - 18:06 ET by nkviking75Don't look for improvement under a new owner. CBS and NBC-Universal are leading bidders. NBC-Universal's recent "Green is Universal" schlock-propagandafest gives us all a clue what TWC would look like under their ownership.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Oh Lord!!!
May 1, 2008 - 18:16 ET by PrairieSkyAre you kidding me?? I had not heard that! Well, you're right...If either NBC or CBS get it, it'll only get worse...particularly if NBC gets it. Oh brother.... Thanks for the info.
"Green is Universal" I'll
May 1, 2008 - 18:19 ET by fitzfong"Green is Universal"
I'll bet it is. GE expects us to line their pockets with plenty of green by using their lame programs to scare viewers into purchasing those frivolous mercury-bomb lightbulbs. Talk about paying yourself first.
I'll confess, also, that
May 1, 2008 - 17:58 ET by SumricaI'll confess, also, that I'll tune in the Weather Channel when we're in the throes of dealing with a storm making landfall. More and more, I've been using what I call "The Navy Site" for Hurricane tracking.
Sumrica...
May 1, 2008 - 18:10 ET by PrairieSkyMy parents and in-laws both live in Florida (near the coast), so they too tune in for The Weather Channel's hurricane coverage, which has, I hate to admit, always been great. I'll tell them about the site that you mentioned. Thanks!!
PrairieSky
May 1, 2008 - 18:17 ET by SumricaI'm in Biloxi. So, we're watching the same storms as your folks.
I've been using the Navy Site for at least 3 seasons. They do a good job.
Sumrica...
May 1, 2008 - 18:21 ET by PrairieSkyMy parents are in Ft. Walton Beach, so yep...you're in the same area. My in-laws are in Melbourne, down on the Space Coast area. BTW...I used to live in Biloxi in junior high (early '70's). Small world!!
That link is great...me
May 1, 2008 - 18:25 ET by taterThat link is great...me being the weather nerd and living nowhere near water I'll probably still look at that site a lot. Showing a nice cyclone in the Bay of Bengal.
"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather
tater...
May 1, 2008 - 18:30 ET by PrairieSkyWe're weather nerds too. It is a great site.
Here's an alternative to
May 1, 2008 - 19:04 ET by SumricaHere's an alternative to the link I posted above. Once they were having troubles with the NRL site and posted a link to the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. At the bottom of the page, you'll see a link to Tropical Cyclones. Looks like it's the same data.
Thanks again...
May 2, 2008 - 12:40 ET by PrairieSkyfor the info and the link. I'll pass it on to my folks. As we head into another hurricane season, any bit if info is helpful. Thanks!!
Local media is better for tornadoes, severe T-storms
May 1, 2008 - 19:21 ET by nkviking75As an Iowan, hurricane coverage is interesting but doesn't affect me. TWC is helpful with winter storms because it's always on, and because winter storms are large scale events. But for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, local radio and TV, along with NOAA weather radio, is the way to go. Even in my very small TV market the local outlets do a much better job covering severe weather.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Block Weather.com
May 1, 2008 - 17:34 ET by SumricaSorry, I just don't think I would survive watching that video.
My little protest to Cullen: I just blocked the weather.com URL with my ad blocking program.
Can't remember the last time I had my TV on The Weather Channel. It was well before Cullen called for meteorologists loosing their credentials if they didn't drink the Kool-Aid.
NOT TO WORRY !!!!!!!
May 1, 2008 - 17:35 ET by red_dragon311Mark Levin talked about this on his show last night
Rush touched on it today
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
Poor Dr. Cullen...maybe she
May 1, 2008 - 17:42 ET by taterPoor Dr. Cullen...maybe she missed the day in class where they told us that models can and will be inaccurate sometimes.
"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather
PhDipsh_t
May 2, 2008 - 06:24 ET by thoridfly"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is ... there aren't any professors that can teach it and there aren't any students that want to take it." - someone's grandfather
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
Common Sense 101
May 2, 2008 - 06:42 ET by AgnosticIt is called economics and some form of it should be taught to every student as soon as they have learned to add, subtract and look at pictures. If people truly understood economics then they could control some of their emotional responses because they would know root causes and economic effects of various actions.
Models
May 2, 2008 - 12:02 ET by r22weissAh...I made it to class that day and is why i look at several different models before making a forecast.
I ask this question all the time: If the computer models struggle to get the forecast right 5 days out, how can we be sure that a model saying what could happen in 50 years is accurate?
You'd think that after all
May 1, 2008 - 17:49 ET by fitzfongYou'd think that after all the chaos Heidi Cullen and her eco-Nazi ilk have caused throughout the world (the bloated gas prices, the unnecessary food shortages the deaths from malaria, etc.), they'd give this frivolous, obnoxious "Global Warming"/"Climate Change" shell game a rest for a while. Arrogant delusion must be a tough thing to break, I guess.
BTW, do they watch their own
May 1, 2008 - 17:59 ET by USA4freedomBTW, do they watch their own channel??
Its snowing in Denver today..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
"BTW, do they watch their
May 2, 2008 - 12:07 ET by r22weiss"BTW, do they watch their own channel??
Its snowing in Denver today.. "
Memo to all Weather Channel TV Employees:
Don't pay attention to the cold and snow in Colorado, Wyoming, and other places out west. Focus on the tornadoes, floods, and record warmth in the midwest and east.
Or at least that's probably what they got.
I PLAY A METEOROLOGIST ON TV!
May 1, 2008 - 17:59 ET by Sgthulka- Friend of Laurie David (Activist and proponent of the "one sheet" toilet paper rule)
- Hired by former head of CNN who now runs the Weather Channel to "be an activist for the environment"
- Believes that anyone who expresses doubt about global warming should be fired from the Weather Channel
It takes a lot of schooling
May 1, 2008 - 18:00 ET by the strugglerIt takes a lot of schooling to be this dumb.
Stalin Said It Best
May 2, 2008 - 06:17 ET by thoridfly"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." - Joseph Stalin
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." - Vladimir Lenin
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever." - Vladimir Lenin
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Vladimir Lenin
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition." - Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
Insightful reading
May 1, 2008 - 18:00 ET by tkeefeThis Link from accu-weather was very interesting unless of course your albore or a warming Gestapo member. Tells a lot about the claim of man made warming from co2 levels.
The Evidence Against Human Causation in Global Warming
Chris Towsey, MSc(Syd) BSc (Hons) Dip Ed FAusIMM
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/evidence-towsey.pdf
This half-wit is doing
May 1, 2008 - 18:55 ET by NL207This half-wit is doing something akin to crying "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Free speech is a fine thing, but this is malicious mischief.
Biggest White Elephant in Human History
May 2, 2008 - 06:05 ET by thoridfly70-80% of ALL environmental law is mischief ... mischief framed in a law.
Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Gore-bal warming is the biggest white elephant in human history ... it's a red herring, myth, and outright lie designed to bilk taxpayers and consumers of hundreds of billions - trillions - of dollars.
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
I think Heidi Cullen's form
May 1, 2008 - 19:28 ET by radiofitz34I think Heidi Cullen's form of climatology is closer to astrology, than it is actual science. It does seem as though "global warming" has a promotions department. These folks are really good at accomplishing nothing for the cause of nothing.
Democrat Motto
May 2, 2008 - 05:28 ET by thoridfly"These folks are really good at accomplishing nothing for the cause of nothing." Great quote ... for Democrats, liberals, and globalwarmingtologists. Ties in nicely with the Democratic Party motto ... "We are really good at accomplishing nothing for the cause of nothing."
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
The Weather Channel is Clearly Biased
May 1, 2008 - 20:50 ET by PopularTechSo much for objectivity!
Con job at The Weather Channel (WorldNetDaily)
Weather Channel Politics: Admit Man Causes Global Warming Or Else (The National Ledger)
"The Weather Channel" Mess (James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist)
The Weather Channel's 'One Degree' of Propaganda (Business & Media Institute)
The Weather Channel Warms Up to Climate Change Theory (CNSNews)
Weather Channel's Cullen Hopes to Push Global Warming Agenda on Weather.com (Business & Media Institute)
Weather Channel 'likes to call Gore President-elect' (WorldNetDaily)
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
pop tech read this you
May 1, 2008 - 21:55 ET by red_dragon311pop tech read this you cant make this stuff up
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
May 2, 2008 - 05:31 ET by thoridflyLet's quote that one again ...
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
Heidi says,
May 2, 2008 - 01:08 ET by gfrrman"And for me, coming from The Weather Channel, the most powerful tool that exists is Weather.com and you type in your zip code and you get a forecast out five days." And since they change that daily it is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ACCURATE!! You putz!! Can't even get a 5 day forecast remotely accurate and that is what you AGW base your stance on: computer models?? What a FOOL!! Nice try.
"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money...." MARGARET THATCHER
Not Democrats
May 2, 2008 - 04:37 ET by thoridfly"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money ..." - Margaret Thatcher
Yeah, but not Democrats.
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
Will Rogers
May 2, 2008 - 05:23 ET by thoridfly"I am a member of no organized political party ... I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
I'd say not JUST Democrats
May 2, 2008 - 05:27 ET by sarcasmoThe inflation-machine's runnin' pretty damn well for the Republicans at the moment. If they bailed out irresponsible bankers yesterday, that logically paves the way for irresponsible home buyers tomorrow. And the magic of inflation means the costs will be borne by future generations.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Democrats Are Antichrists ... They Are Pharisees and Sadducees
May 2, 2008 - 05:39 ET by thoridflyRepublicans are the only ones that actually LOWER taxcs and advocate LIMITED government.
Democrats are sublimated communists ... in the chemical sense of the definition.
"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke
If they truly advocated "LIMITED government"
May 2, 2008 - 05:43 ET by sarcasmoThey'd have cut spending instead of enormously increasing it. They didn't, so something's dreadfully wrong with your analysis. I'd suggest more facts and less faith.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
HA! That was pretty
May 2, 2008 - 08:53 ET by amberHA! That was pretty funny. I think he means Republicans and conservatives who are not in office. So, more truth and loyalty, less politicians.
Earth to Heidi Cullin: We
May 2, 2008 - 08:49 ET by Seabeach4348Earth to Heidi Cullin: We can do the same thing (punch in our zip code) with NOAA's website. We get the forcast without the theatrics, without the silliness, without the AGW baloney, and without having to listen to you and your socialist crap and guilt based on tweaked and flawed computer models!
Oh, one more thing, Princess: let's not forget how badly your predictions flopped with regard to the 2006 and 2007 hurricane season. These were based on more computer models showing "trends" with a healthy dose of hysteria.
Your faces at TWC were absolutely ashen when just the opposite of your predictions turned out to be true.
ashen faces
May 2, 2008 - 08:57 ET by AgnosticThat is just it, they aren't ashen. They just come out and make more predictions like the last two years didn't happen. The fact that there is no accountability can only mean one thing in my opinion and that is there is another objective besides forecasting the weather for making those predictions.
I meant that over the past
May 2, 2008 - 09:08 ET by Seabeach4348I meant that over the past two summers whenever a potential hurricane fizzled out there were long faces and looks of deep disappointment among the staff and the usual talking heads at TWC.
But, you are correct: they just go on and make more predictions and don't ever mention their many failures.
fizzled
May 2, 2008 - 09:17 ET by AgnosticI have to say that even before GW became the hot topic that there seemed to be an gleeful attitude towards the approaching hurricane. That was of course until many hours later when the were covering the same palm tree bending over to nearly touch the roof a trailer as the Hurricane made a westernly turn that sent off on another unpredictable tract.
With accountablility come responsibility and most journalist seem to have neither.
Declare Victory Now, Doctor Heidi!
May 2, 2008 - 08:55 ET by GlobalWarmingInsanityMy theory has always been that in a few years, once it became clear that global warming was not happening, alarmists like Doctor Heidi would just declare victory. They would say that their "forward-thinking, decisive action" saved the planet. There'd be more Nobel-Prizes and they could get on worrying about Y3K.
But the future is NOW! The Nobel Prize winning IPCC says we will contunue cooling until 2015. New satellite research out today says we'll cool until 2030.
Doctor Heidi, I urge you to get out in front of the parade.... declare victory NOW!
GlobalWarmingInsanity.com