Global warming debate concensus crack

Global warming debate provacateur Heidi Cullen is being discussed on Fox 'n Friends.

Is the Weather Channel getting political? The trio comment on Cullen and James Spann, who retorted in a statement which was subsequently picked up at the Drudge Report, and around the Internet.

On Fox 'n Friends, the Weather Channel's site is shown scrolling down some hundreds of postings regarding Cullen's comments. (visit it - obviously, there is not a concensus)

http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11592.html

Kilmeade, commenting on Cullen over at the Weather Channel: taking a page from the O'Donnell and Donald Trump playbook, it's all a ratings boost, he says.

What Cullen stated:

Excerpt

Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. 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.

http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11396.html?cm_ven=one_deg_blog&cm_ite=one_deg_commentary&from=one_deg_commentary

A weatherman, in Alabama has commented, says Doocy, doesn't know a single meteorologist who believes in global warming.

BTW James Spann's site is getting more traffic than ever due to the notoriety - hope they put up a comment area soon to increase their readership.

http://www.weatherbrains.com/

“The Weather Channel” Mess
January 18, 2007, 5:45 pm | James Spann | Op/Ed

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh?

I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. Here are the basic facts you need to know...

http://www.jamesspann.com/blog.htm


Last couple of days Senate offices have been bombarded with emails, and receiving 40,000 queries about this, says Doocy.

Gretchen, it's not an exact science.

We know earth is getting warmer, we don't know why. Is it a great big cycle or man-made, that is where the debate is.

Check out Weatherbrains podcast
Weather Brains episode number 52 is on the server (January 22, 2007).

In this week's episode:

-James Spann's global warming controversy with Dr. Heidi Cullen of The Weather Channel...-Kevin Selle finds that the whole issue actually started with the interview of a Washington, D.C. television meteorologist last year...

http://www.weatherbrains.com/

Note the http://www.jamesspann.com/blog.htm blog contains comments of posters (37) too much traffic...

http://www.jamesspann.com/blog.htm

Secret report global warming??

Report Has 'Smoking Gun' on Climate

By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
Monday, January 22, 2007; 7:21 PM



WASHINGTON -- Human-caused global warming is here _ visible in the air, water and melting ice _ and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.

"The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The evidence ... is compelling."

Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles."

The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes "a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate," co-chair Susan Solomon a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone briefing on the report Monday.

That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming, Solomon said.

Solomon and others wouldn't go into specifics about what the report says. They said that the 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited in secret word-by-word by governments officials for several days next week and released to the public on Feb. 2. The rest of that first report from scientists will come out months later...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200917_pf.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/

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Meteorologist Spann Monday Guest Spots Jan. 22

Glenn Beck notion of man's exclusive contribution to global warming is wrong...

Get the transcript

Meteorologist Disagrees with Global Warming Theory
Aired January 22, 2007 - 19:00:00 ET

Glenn Beck

...The notion of man`s complete responsibility for global warming has wrongly been adopted as universal truth here in our country. Remember, you know, just because Al Gore made a documentary doesn`t mean that all of the information he presented were irrefutable facts. Where were the SUVs when the dinosaurs were burned?

You know, it`s just like two doctors having a differing opinion on how to handle a treatment of a disease. There are numerous alternative views on why the Earth`s climate is what it is...


What happened? How did -- why is it, James, that you don`t believe that this is a manmade process?

JAMES SPANN, METEOROLOGIST: Well, Glenn, the earth`s climate has changed since the day God put it here. We have had these cyclical changes, and I believe that most of this is purely natural.

Quite frankly, to those of us in the operational community -- and we`re talking meteorologists that look at computer models and data in a simulated public forecast -- we don`t see much difference in the global warming in the last 10 to 15 years compared to the global warming we had from about 1910 to about 1945.

The 1930s were extremely cold across the globe. And I just don`t see a lot of difference in that.

And to us, the co2 emissions -- and let me say this. I think we should reduce this for better air quality. We`re going to run out of fossil fuels. We have many issues. And I`m all in agreement that we should reduce that.

But the idea that this is producing catastrophic manmade global warming just doesn`t make a lot of sense. It`s a pop gun compared to atomic bomb issues like volcanic dust in the stratosphere, the position of the sun, the temperature of the sun, the structure of the earth`s magnetic poles and ocean currents. That`s what makes the big changes...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/22/gb.01.html

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/gb.html

CNN Transcripts for January 22, 2007

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007.01.22.html

Beck's guest is James Spann

Is it manmade or is it natural, poses Spann during the interview. There needs to be a healthy debate. He responded to Cullen's comments...

Spann said Cullen was unavailable to appear on a spot on the podcast at weatherbrains.com

http://www.weatherbrains.com/

GLENN BECK

Scientist Shares Alternate View on Global Warming; Do Commercial Airlines Care More about Lawsuits Than Safety? Aired January 17, 2007 - 19:00:00 ET

Discusses global warming with Bjorn Lomborg, a scientist. He`s an author of the "Skeptical Environmentalist".

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/17/gb.01.html



Thanks to following site for the tip of Spann's scheduled appearances. We would've missed it firsthand if we hadn't found the announcement.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

In essence, Spann does not believe that human activity is contributing to global warming and contends that "billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon." Spann received so much traffic on his site that it was temporarily shut down Thursday night, he said.

Then the FOX News Network called and asked him to appear on "Hannity & Colmes." And CNN Headline News, which wanted to book him for "Glenn Beck." Spann said he is scheduled to appear on both of those shows Monday night.
What pressed all of those hot buttons was Spann's response to comments made by the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen on a blog she posted Dec. 21.

On that post, titled "Junk Controversy, Not Junk Science," Cullen supported the theory that increases in levels of gases, particularly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere have led to global warming, and she challenged meteorologists who say it is the result of cyclical weather patterns...

http://kstepanian.blogspot.com/

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