Dr. Heidi Cullen of Weather Channel fame but now CEO of Climate Central outfit is publishing a new book on August 3, so far #138,256 on Amazon’s bestsellers but sure to rocket up the listings when the book publicity tour begins.
From the Entertainment section of ABCnews.com: Climatologist Sees Disastrous Weather in Future … Cullen predictably delves into the global warming alarmism and whips up several very “Day After Tomorrow” scenarios:
The itinerary includes imaginary “weather reports” for a series of future years. The one for New York dated “August 2050” is the most optimistic, though it envisions the Atlantic as warming to “bathtub” temperature. It concludes:
“In 2050, when Hurricane Xavier — a category 4 monster, which sprang up from the bathtub that the Atlantic had become finally arrived — people sat back and watched it like the World Series. We knew we had a home team advantage, just like the Yankees.”
FLASHBACK: “The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists….
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Chicken Little Science at it’s worst!
Future history? It’s been done. Isaac Asimov.
2050? Tell you what — when the bright young kid comes to interview me after I turn 100, I’ll give him my unvarnished opinion of climate science when we’ll be seeing that the weather is pretty much the same as it’s always been.
I always thought she was an attractive, personable woman and she seemed like a good scientist.
Now I know…the AGENDA behind the woman…leaves little in regards to the attractiveness department.
Nothing like a little foul festering pseudoscience…to make even the prettiest woman….seem rather dull and ordinary.
Keep a watch on this one. See if it reaches the 100th (or 1000th) position on Amazon.
But they can’t even predict that next summer or winter, I guess if they keep saying it’ll be hot they’ll get it right 50% of the time?
There doesn’t seem to be one iota of real science there. Pure MMGW tripe, based on the article.
This type of silly nonsense has been done before. These idiots keep forgetting that it is not heat that causes weather, it is the differential in temperatures. There is absolutely no reason to believe a hotter earth would have any more cyclonic storms than the norm. Historically, they seem to be more prevalent when the sub-polar regions are cold and the tropics warm. That is called, global cooling.
Wasn’t that made into a movie already?
Girl is obviously pimping the book to parachute out of the weather business with a movie deal and a speaking tour.
Seriously? The Yankees? What on Earth does that have to do with a hurricane other than I would like both to go away? Sounds like an awful book judged on that one quote alone. One I am not likely to forgive. See, my favorite baseball player is Tim Wakefield, who recently met with a pitcher for the Chico Outlaws (only in Chico!) to show the lady how to properly throw a knuckleball. I was born and raised on the Red Sox, so I would hope that by 2050, that Yankees home advantage she is blathering about turns into the 2004 ALCS…
This is the kind of writing we grow out of and away from as we mature and leave our idealistic naivete behind. That is to say, we turn 14 and see the world as an adult. Watts happened here? This is more like Blazing Saddles meets a bad hair day in the middle of the perfect storm while on a three hour tour; A three hour tour… Sing along!
If it weren’t July and we weren’t still using the electric blanket, this story might have had a chance.
She’s young enough to live to regret this book. Steve should tell her quick that the arctic has gone into a “Life Spiral”. Some Polar Bears have been spotted wearing “Depends” and playing Bridge.
I wonder if she mentions the heavy ice storms along the gulf coast in the springs of the future? Maybe the snow shields they will put up around the NYC subway entrances to keep them from drifting shut? The escape hatches they cut into the capitol dome to get the people out?Tunneling through the snow in the rose garden?
There is only so much energy that can be rung out of the ion shifts of the atmosphere as the summer changes into fall, in the form of tropical storms that discharge the buildup of pole to equator ion potentials due to homopolar currents in the geomagnetic fields, when passing outer planets.
Unless the size or proximity of the outer planets is going to change drastically, I do not see how hurricanes can get any worse than they have been already. Ocean Heat content is not going to be a problem as she states it will be. The heating cycle is past peak now and falling fast, watch this winter for more east coast great white fun.
Folks, these are interesting times…..we are actually witnessing the death-throes of a major religion!
The world did not end when the Artic ice mass remained intact this season, Climategate blew a hole through their bow, and the public is fast losing faith and interest in AGW, especially when they realize who is going to foot the bill.
As a result, we are seeing various death-throes including ever-more-desperate attempts to link rising temperatures with something/anything!! Dying/declining phytoplankton is the new boogie-man as we’ve been reading.
Garbage like this is pitiful, right up with Gore’s “Earth in the Balance” and Hansen’s “Storms of my Grandchildren.” The Population Bomb didn’t happen, Love Canal didn’t kill us all, and AGW will be a similar bust.
Am I the only one to notice / mention that (back on the 27th) the (Cryosphere Today Arctic Sea) graph has expanded the color scheme to add a deep blue and emerald green area from about 30% to about 82% sea ice concentration, and compressed the old 40% to 90% sea ice content, color scheme into the 90% to 100% concentration area?
I would guess it might be to better match the scale of the new satellite to measure ice volume. Then again I have an open mind and am more critical of data / presentation, than personal motives of the site maintenance people.
The cover art of this book appeared unapologetically alarmist. I would have felt that an image of the Thames frozen over would have been more appropriate, given it would be based on actual human experience of living in a “climate changed world”. Rather than judge the author’s work by the cover, I clicked over to Climate Central to see the outfit she was involved in. Sadly I noted that Climate Central appeared to be a more polished form of the Journolist for climate. However my concerns were somewhat allayed as I noted from Climate Central’s legal page that as propagandists they are not taking themselves too seriously –
CLIMATE CENTRAL DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE
Heidi may not be covering real science, but she’s really covering her…
But then she would be wise to do so. One no longer needs to be a climate scientist to predict that the weather of the future for AGW propagandists will involve HEAVY STORMS – DERISIVE AT TIMES.
The bathtub Atlantic, the Yankees, a hurricane…hm. She is going to make hundreds of dollars!
How did she get to be a Climatologist?
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Future history? It’s been done. Isaac Asimov.
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I believe you’re referring to Robert Heinlein’s famous set of stories. That said, Dr. Asimov would likely destroy the warmists with an essay where he brought the reader from first principles to the conclusion via easy to follow steps.
Wonder how all the people that went on the Swine Flu bandwagon are going now? She’s too young to destroy her career
I’m no expert but the quoted paragraph seems gramatically incoherent and reads very badly.
reality time
I’ve written several books, and was actually thinking about writing a Science Fiction story about how climate will affect us in the future. Fortunately I realized that such a book would be insufferably boring, and wasting time writing it would not be wise.
Then again, I could write one that is so absolutely absurd, so over the top, that nobody could possibly take it seriously. Then “The Day After Tomorrow” came out, and now Heidi is releasing this one, so I’ve been beaten to it.
Oh well… I’ll stick with unlikely but slightly plausible plots based on made-up quirks of physics…
Why did she bother?? That was soooo 2006. This film will only provide more ammunition for those pesky “deniers”.
Can’t wait to see the likes of Monckton tear the film to bits using peer reviewed science.
It’s easy to predict the future: 211 – Business as usual, with a handful of cranks on the street corner predicting in imminent end of the world. Same as all our pasts.
2110 that is.