This is really something. The job opening listed below advertises for an NSF funded program at George Mason University for education of TV weathercasters on how “unusual weather events” are connected to “climate change”. Apparently the “weather is not climate” maxim has been thrown out the window in a desperate attempt to salvage sinking public opinion on the issue.
“This project will focus on establishing a national network of on-air broadcast meteorologists, climate scientists, university research programs, and key climate and weather science organizations, to engage, train, and empower local broadcast meteorologists to educate and inform the American public about climate.”
I suppose this relates to Dr. Kevin Trenberth’s statement about TV weathercasters in his recent speech preprint to be delivered at the upcoming AMS convention in Seattle.
Nevertheless, the natural variability provides valuable opportunities for ongoing “news” and education, as teachable moments, but many scientists have not been helpful, and many TV weathercasters are poorly informed and sometimes downright hostile (Wilson 2009).
From personal experience, I imagine they’ll be more even more hostile when their TV news director gets a call from the climate re-educators asking why they didn’t link the hailstorm yesterday to global warming.
Get a load of this statement:
It will also adapt and test conflict resolution theory and practice to engage meteorologists who reject the scientific consensus and climate scientists in constructive dialogue.
Here is the PDF hosted at NCAR/UCAR, and here is that PDF put to plain text below.
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George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to support an NSF-funded planning grant titled Making the Global Local: Unusual Weather Events as Climate Change Education Opportunities. The goal of this project is to establish a national network of climate and weather science organizations, and university research and teaching programs, to engage, train, and empower local broadcast meteorologists to educate and inform the American public about climate change. The project will integrate informal learning, mass communication, and experiential learning theories to develop and test new pedagogical approaches to informal science education through frequent mass media exposure, linked to realworld experience (i.e., the local weather). It will also adapt and test conflict resolution theory and practice to engage meteorologists who reject the scientific consensus and climate scientists in constructive dialogue. Collaborating institutions include National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, American Association of State Climatologists, American Geophysical Union, Climate Central, National Environmental Education Foundation, and Yale and Cornell universities.
Candidates must have a PhD in a relevant social or learning science discipline, and a track record of published journal articles and/or conference papers on relevant topics of inquiry including climate change communication, science communication and/or formal or informal science education. Experience in survey research, qualitative data collection, strategic (program) planning, professional development, and climate science is preferred. Additional skills required include competence in planning and multitasking, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, ability to communicate verbally and in writing, and the ability to adapt to the changing demands of a dynamic research environment.
For full consideration, interested and qualified applicants must submit the online faculty application for position #F9401z. Applications should include (a) cover letter including a statement of research interests and career goals, and names and contact information of two professional references, and (b) a vita.
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Here’s my take on it:
http://climatequotes.com/2011/01/15/taxpayers-funding-nsf-program-to-teach-meteorologists-about-climate-change/
Leftists have a thing with re-education, don’t they?
Get your weather and propaganda at the one stop shop.
I wonder, will the weather people go for it? Our local tv guy won’t touch the hoax with a 10 foot pole … he steers completely away.
If you have a local skeptical TV weatherman or woman, please send this along to them. Remind them that “climate scientists” think of them as dimwitted talking heads who should not even be allowed to have opinions on “climate change.”
This is disgusting and foolish. Disgusting because it is propaganda for AGW. Foolish because associating local weather events with global warming will only show that the theories held by the pro-AGW crowd are nonsense.
I hope that meteorologists push back powerfully and thoroughly. I will be talking to Eric Cantor about Leftist propaganda and federal granting agencies.
“Empower…” The word pegs my BS meter every time, without fail.
Don’t forget this part of the job posting:
It will also adapt and test conflict resolution theory and practice to engage meteorologists who reject the scientific consensus and climate scientists in constructive dialogue.
Teaching them how to attack meteorologists who don’t tow the line.
How is it that any unusual weather event is automatically a result of climate “change”.
It’s tantamount to the claim that there would be no unusual weather events if climate were not changing. There’s “unusual” weather events all the time, always have been, always will be.
Anthony – I was pleased to see on CNN a few days ago, when the weather girl was asked by the anchor if the Aussie floods were caused by global warming, she explained that they were linked to La Nina, explained what that was, how it influenced weather, and did not mention global warming once.
So once the newly brainwashed weather boys and girls are ready, the networks may have to do a lot of hiring and firing to put them in place.
All the best.
It might be worth noting that the AMS annual meeting is scheduled for January 23-27 in Seattle.
The theme of the 2011 AMS Annual Meeting is “Communicating Weather and Climate.” http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/index.html
A tour of the Meeting’s web site suggests that the move to re-educate meteorologists is well under way. Trenberth, Somerville, Pope, Cicerone, Emanuael, Karoly…. they’ll all be presenting.
“Apparently the “weather is not climate” maxim has been thrown out the window in a desperate attempt to salvage sinking public opinion on the issue.”
The difference is that coming out of colleges and universities we now have a crop of meteorologists who have been indoctrinated in AGW since kindergarten so to them it is “fact”. They know nothing different and only “kooks” question it. It has been driven into them as “known fact” literally since nursery school. So “unusual weather events” are connected to “climate change” would seem quite natural to them.
This is actually doubleplusgood! The developing analogy to the Dalton Minimum (~1790 to ~1830) might cause some difficulty in the doublethink department. Without adequate re-education, TV people might commit both thoughtcrime and facecrime!
Next stop Gulag.
I think the funniest (aka disturbing) of all this is that the Warmies HATE GMU. From the Wegman report to the Koch Brothers, nothing but vitriol for GMU.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mercatus_Center
Why would the they get a grant from the NSF?
Sounds like recruiting new clergy for a church. Only those willing to follow established theology need apply.
Ian
Thanks, Anthony!
Cultural Revolution anyone?
I’m all for it….
If anyone thinks climate scientists can screw up a forecast….
…just wait until they have TV weathermen doing it
By the end of the first month, there won’t be anyone that believes………
Seems to be a theme of late. The more the data doesn’t co-operate, the more reliance on PR and blatant lies. As we have seen in Australia and even the freezing north this winter activists have been desperately throwing anything at the wall, in the hope that something will stick.
Weather is not climate – except when we think it may promote the cause. I think the desperate act of breaking all their own rules for short term gain might well come back to bite them in the ass before very long.
Here…I’ve reworded the posting for George Mason University to better reflect the intent…
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George Mason University Climate Club: Climate Change Communication Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The George Mason University Climate Club invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to support an NSF-funded planning grant titled “Stoking the Global Warming Mania: Unusual Weather Events as Climate Change Hysteria Opportunities.” The goal of this project is to establish a national network of climate and weather group-think organizations, and university research and indoctrination programs, to “persuade” local broadcast meteorologists (if they know what’s good for them…) to fool and misdirect the American public about catastrophic climate change. The project will integrate informal learning (no tests!), mass hypnosis, and experiential learning theories (from ex-KGB officers) to develop and test new approaches to informal science education (no tests!) through frequent mass media propaganda, linked to realworld experience (e.g. protesting at coal-fired power plants during a blizzard). It will also adapt and test conflicting theory resolution (i.e. what to say when GCM predictions become epic failures) and practice to “engage” meteorologists who (unwisely) reject the scientific consensus and climate scientists in constructive dialogue in a dark back ally with several heavy-set climate “friends” (where persuasion becomes much easier). Collaborating groups and individuals include the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, Climate Central, the Weather Channel, Greenpeace, Earth First, George Soros, Friends of Kevin Trenberth, and the Communist Party of America.
Candidates must have a PhD in a relevant social or learning science discipline from one of those fancy, new online universities, and a track record of published articles in Mother Jones and Rolling Stone Magazines on relevant topics of inquiry including climate conference party planning (Bali! Cancun!), and science communication using puppets. Experience in social networking, money collection, and beer drinking is preferred. No experience in climate science is required (will train on the job). Additional skills required include…awww, don’t worry about that – just apply!!
You will be assimilated….
Being told what to think is so much easier than thinking for yourself.
I got my degree in atmospheric physics from ITT Tech. I can’t tell you what a difference it has made in my life!
Me too, just like “wellness” and “end times”.
Hate to break it to you, but TV weather folks are no better at predicting the weather 3 days out than climate scientists are at predicting 100 years out.
Time to defund a few things in the new budget.