You may recall NBC’s Today show sending out their correspondents to all ends of the earth to highlight “climate change”.
‘Today’ host Matt Lauer reported from Jakobshavn Glacier in the Arctic last year.
Ann Curry headed to Antarctica for ‘Today Heads to the Ends of the Earth’
Well, they are at it again. From the New York Daily News:
“Today Goes to the Ends of the Earth,” kicking off on Nov. 17, will have anchors Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Al Roker and Ann Curry headed to four different locations across the globe.
Each anchor’s location will not be revealed until the first day of the series, though Today show spokesman Jim Bell promises that anywhere is possible.
From my insider TV sources the TYSPY.com newsletter they tell me Ann Curry will be going to Mount Kilimanjaro:
Ann Curry, who spent much of Election Night traversing NBC’s “virtual rotunda,” will next climb Mount Kilimanjaro for a “Today” show sweeps stunt.
It’s an eight-day hike to the 19,340-foot summit, and according to NBC News, she’ll be there to report on the changing climate of Africa’s highest peak.
Place your bets now on if there will be mentions of these key words which actually are relevant to the true Kiliminjaro story: evapotranspiration, deforestation, sublimation.
Having done a number of TV weather live shots in remote places myself, including from atop the Sutter Buttes in the Sacramento Valley and from the fire tower at Sawmill Peak, I can tell you that preparation and backup equipment is everything. They may not actually be able to pull off the Kili stunt for technical reasons.
Alas, it will be spring there, so there will be plenty of “melting” to film, as there is every spring.
Ann Curry is a good looking woman.
Dill Weed
Hi Eric, Kili is 3.03 degrees south and in Tanzania, not Kenya. Regrds from the snowy cold mountains of Davos, Switzerland
In the interest of accuracy, I have to point out that you don’t really know if the animal is dead or not.
Mmm.
There is an old legend about Cordell Hull (I have no idea if it is actually true). He was riding in a train with fellow jurists. One of them looked out the window and remarked, “Those sheep are shorn”.
Hull is said to have replied, “At least on one side.”
Just to build excitement.
But you have to be wary of those early exit polls.
Dill Weed:
“Ann Curry is a good looking woman.”
So was Barbarella.
Any volunteers for taking a camera up there to document the ecological destruction caused by the NBC entourage? I envision cigarette butts, granola bar wrappers, crushed endangered vegetation, etc, etc.
The reason why I reported on snowpack is because wet snow can come and then melt off in warm temperatures, leaving no snowpack behind. Snowpack, I believe, is a measure of the snow on the ground at that moment if melted and measured. Precipitation is more a measure of how wet the atmosphere is. Snowpack is more a measure of temperature as well as atmospheric precipitation. Snowpack then is a better measure of trends simply because it sticks around longer, even from season to season, and doesn’t depend on rare precipitation events but on overall precipitation events. There are winter seasons on record with high precipitation values but low snowpack. That means that the temps were just too warm to build a snowpack measure or the snow just too dry to have much moisture in it.
From what I am seeing in the year to year data, snowpack is building from year to year once again from its unusual high in 2005.
There is an old legend about …
Thought you were going to tell us the story about that leopard at the top.
Who is Cordell Hull anyway?
“Ann Curry is a good looking woman”
In that hat, she looks… oh, I don’t know, kind of Palinesque. Wonder what kind of shoes she’ll wear.
Bill P
I hope the make a program about the Chagga instead. They have one of the best and smartest irrigation systems I’ve ever seen.
Tamara is right. Have these folks filed an environmental impact statement? I live in Colorado, climbing a 14er can be hard. A flatlander at 19,000? I supect they won’t show us the oxygen tanks.
Maybe they’ll just film it in Arizona with some bits of styrofoam.
“…a program about the Chagga instead.” I agree.
nothing to do with this, but it seems that the Maldives are being threatened by AGW. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449911,00.html
Reading Lomborg, I’ve discovered there is an epidemic of alarmism based on Grossly. Inflated. Sub. Standard. data right across the board in environmental / global issues. Climate is not the only target. “We had long been hearing… that we would lose about half of all species within a generation. The correct figure is closer to 0.7% in 50 years”…
P Folkens writes:
“NBC-T may simply be trying to keep up with Scott Pelley over at CBS-60min.”
Yeah lie and distort often.
Bill,
It must be the parka, hood and fluff. Plus an after image of Palin burned into your retinas.
I must object to the comparison!!
I found myself wondering after reading some of Palin’s quotes how could someone with two teachers for parents have such screwed up speech patterns.
After all, doesn’t our language reflect our thinking?
I think they should Ann Curry to a beach somewhere though. : P
Dill Weed
Maybe they should all go to the Hindu Kush.
There was a topic over at Jennifer Marohasy’s web site over the weekend about the independence in the main stream media from political correctness. She apparently had been sitting next to a journalism professor and broached to subject subtlely that there is a lot of repetition of stories. The professor agreed but his explanation was elegant and scarry. “there are established story lines – that journalists only add to these narratives, as one might add to a large tapestry.” AGW is clearly an emotional narrative where stories are planned and put forward to support a conclusion rather than enlighten an audience. I think the challenge for getting main stream media attention for skeptical views is to figure out what kind of emotional narrative can supplant the AGW narrative.
When Oxfam started raising the issue of expanded poverty and starvation caused by conversion of food crops into biofuels, it seemed to get a lot of discussion in Europe but I only saw one story in the NY Times and never saw any on TV. I think a very interesting skeptic web site would be one that could be titled “Real Consequences” that critically examined the impact of AGW solutions on the people of this planet and on the environment.
I hate the stinkin’ drive-by media. CBS (communist broadcast system), CNN (communist news network), NBC (nitwit broadcast community), and I can go on and on. I mean come on, last night on world new, they talked about barak obama going to the white house where he will live in the the future…..”a house that was built by slaves” Now they have all this green crap. As clueless as they are, this goes beyond cluelessness. They will report anything that gets a reaction…hence my first comment about king barak.
Rog
Will she report the temperature?
“Temperature sensors that collect hourly data placed around Mount Kilimanjaro show that temperatures remain below freezing year-round, so it’s very unlikely that air temperature increase due to global warming is causing glaciers to retreat from the mountain. “
Meanwhile the British Daily Mail has different take:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1084877/Record-snow-falls-Europe-North-America-mean-ski-resorts-open-early.html
they’ll use a helicopter but only to fly the polar bear up there so it can be in the background shots. 🙂
Ann Curry? The same one who merrily boated away from drowning dogs in New Orleans? That makes her reporting suspect to me, even if she said GW is a full-fledged crock.
@richard Lawson,
How much is that based on “global”? Check Rutgers for snow anomalies per yesterday and focus on the areas mention in that hyped new flash then look at the rest: http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2008&ui_day=315&ui_set=2
I live right at the foot of an Italian ski resort, and since the Sept.14 snow, not seen anthing new and pretty much all but a little on the permanent shade side, in late autumn / winter time, it’s pretty much gone. Forecast tomorrow “21C Real Feel”.
ttyl
Who is Cordell Hull anyway?
FDR’s Secretary of State.