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….
Matthew says:
Future History was Heinlein’s timeline, but Asimov had Psychohistory.
Unfortunately, just before his death Asimov was active in the anti-Carbon movement, writing at least one book detailing the horrors that humanity was causing with our industrial emissions called “Our Angry Earth”.
However, my respect for Dr. Asimov is great, and I believe he would have seen through what is going on with “climate science” by now.
So, worst case warming of maybe 10F by 2050 would change the bleeding freezing mid-atlantic to a “bathtub” temperature?
She must like her bath pretty damn chilly!
Whither Al Gore? (WAG) Report. (Formerly AGW).
H/T Grope & Fail Experts + Espana.
“We lost. It’s over. Forget it,”.
“Reframe the issue.”
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“Expert: Win climate change debate by easing off science
Panelist says issue must be reframed before time runs out
The battle to get Americans to accept the science behind climate change has been “lost,” an expert at the Aspen Environment Forum declared Wednesday, but there’s still a way to win the war to reduce carbon emissions.
Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, said leaders on climate change need to concentrate on changing behavior in ways that appeal to people — and also happen to reduce carbon emissions.
“Climate scientists — stop talking about climate science. We lost. It’s over. Forget it,” Foley told a surprised audience during a featured panel discussion on the last day of the three-day forum.
He said he likes nothing more than addressing conservatives and trying to win them over. “I like to walk into rooms like that and say, ‘Forget about climate change. Do you love America?’
“And they’ll go, ‘Yeah.’ I’ll say, ‘Doesn’t it kind of tick you off that we borrow money from China, send it to Saudi Arabia to prop up this energy industry … You’re pushing a lot of buttons. They agree on that,” Foley said.
Environmentalists and climate deniers should stop fighting and take action they agree on, even if they approach the issue from different sides, he said.
“The skepticism around climate change has created a trap for us,” Foley said. “Stop digging yourself into the hole. Get out of it. Talk about it a different way. Reframe the issue.”
The Environment Forum was presented by The Aspen Institute and National Geographic Magazine.”
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100729/VALLEYNEWS/100729865/1083&ParentProfile=1074
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“Madrid cuts subsidies for solar power plants
Spain will cut the subsidised electricity prices paid to new photovoltaic solar power plants by up to 45 per cent, the industry ministry has announced, in a move designed to increase efficiency and cut government spending at a time of austerity.
With the help of generous state subsidies and electricity prices as much as 10 times the rate paid for conventionally generated power, Spain has become one of Europe’s leading producers and consumers of alternative energy, but the policy has contributed to an €18bn ($23bn, £15bn) accumulated deficit that hangs over the electricity sector.
The alternative power comes mainly from wind turbines but also from costly panels of photovoltaic cells, which convert sunlight directly into electricity, and from the newer thermosolar plants, which use mirrors to focus the sun’s rays, turn water into steam through heat and so drive a turbine.
The ministry said guaranteed prices for large, ground-based new photovoltaic plants would be cut by 45 per cent, while those for large roof installations would drop 25 per cent and for small ones by 5 per cent. ”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2563018/posts
“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.”
A direct quote? Is it bad editing or just bad grammar? Without the words between the dashes the sentence should still be coherent. Try the sentence with the words in between the dashes removed.
Oh, well. Maybe Dr. Heidi Cullen will get a right royal welcome from Prince Charles.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/7919104/Start-HRH-The-Prince-of-Wales-on-practical-sustainable-living.html
http://www.icecap.us/ website today includes a story about one Judith Curry, who according to Wikipedia:
>Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She is a member of the National Research Council’s Climate Research Committee.[1]
Curry is the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (1999), and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (2002), as well as over 140 scientific papers. Among her awards is the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.<
Curry had recommended that warmist scientists should read what the skeptics are writing, particularly the book The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford.
For this, Curry is being lambasted and treated as a traitor, a denialist etc etc. Of course she will be stonewalled and processed like a anti-communist would be processed in North Korea.
On the other hand, Heidi Cullen, will, for sure, be elevated to godess status for her beautiful fairy tale.
A great deal of SF is based on apocalyptic scenarios because they appeal to an ancient hunger in people to see the slate wiped cleanm the wicked punished and a new order started.
The plot device was first recorded in the Noah myths of worldwide floods.
Why a person would use such ancient schtick to pretend to be a scientist is beyond me.
The batting average for global apocalyptic predictions is precisely 0.
Is this the woman who called for the credentials of AGW skeptics to be canceled, and their careers ended?
I would suggest that anyone who writes a book that is positioned as a serious non-fiction book and uses flooded cities as a prop is the one whose credentials need to be canceled.
CodeTech,
Try re-reading Asimov. I know this is heresy, but a great deal of his psycohhistory writing is nearly unreadable, filled with cliche, naive shallow characters and assumptions of a level of state control that would make Stalinist USSR look to be a free state. One of his most annoying fallacies is the one that people already make today- the infallibility of scientists.
@Richard111
And Prince Charles’ standard of living of course is sustained at considerable expense to the British taxpayer.
Not sure if this the right thread for a comment but this from the BBC /UK met off is a great example of IPCC think. Create a headline that is sensational and bury the truth in the text. Note Chance of hot weather.!!
<=""Chance of hot weather marking the end of August
The second half of the month will see further spells of rain across northern Britain and also at times in western areas. Wet weather in the west will be transitory with a good deal of dry weather here. More may be expected in the south and east.
Temperatures will be at or above the seasonal norm with a low chance that a spell of hot, sunny weather may affect wales and southern England.
Rain fall will be average or below, especially in southeast England
I’m not a scientist. I’m a farmer and have been since 1965 when I decided I didn’t really want to be an engineer. I am by necessity an observer of nature and the weather. Where I lived we had winter mornings often below zero C and summer days in the high 40s ( 47 C at 1100 hrs one Nov morn in 1982). The average temp at Jerrys Plains the year I was born, 1945, was 26 C. The average temp there in 2009 was 25.9 C. The warmest year was in 1940 at 27.8 C.
The BoM tell us that 2010 is shaping to be the hottest year EVER in Australia but not in Jerrys Plains. Methinks the boffins in the BoM should get out more and possibly stay out. Maybe they should take Heidi with them. It looks like the lady could do with a dose of realism and get away from her computer projections.
I first heard “Hidey” Cullen when she was pushing Globull Warming on the Weather Channel. I emailed her about her bunk she was spreading. She went underground. I never saw her on there again. Now I see why. She is using a different venue to spread her bunk.
The temptation to publish and make a bundle off the AGW Hype is just too much for even nice looking little PhDs on TV. It’s insane to just sit by and let all that money and fame go to the guy idiots at Penn State and East Anglia and a couple other stupid places. Right? You bet! Integrity is for guys like Bill Gates who can afford it. When the poker’s hot, ya gotta use it or it will cool off and go for naught. Hay! Girls! Life’s a beach and the surf is up! Money! Money! Money!
It’s a shame sweet little Heidi couldn’t get all you haterhaters the first time she tried…
“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.
The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program “The Climate Code,” is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their “Seal of Approval” for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
“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. Clearly, the AMS doesn’t agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns,” Cullen wrote in her December 21 weblog on the Weather Channel Website.”
I bet butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.
Asimov wrote a series of books about (life on) the planets. It was based on the science of the day, and intended to educate the reader. As far as I know, most of the facts about the planets were later proved to be wrong.
But a genius, no doubt.
“From the Entertainment section of ABCnews.com…”
Pretty much all you need to know about this “news” item…
It’s on par with the IPCC and Al Gore winning the Nobel prize for … peace (and NOT physics). I still think it’s hilarious that Al got an equal share of the Nobel prize
chakramoney for his “work” on global warming.jpfife says:
August 2, 2010 at 2:55 am
“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.”
“A direct quote? Is it bad editing or just bad grammar? Without the words between the dashes the sentence should still be coherent. Try the sentence with the words in between the dashes removed.”
Even if the sentence were grammatically correct, it would still be incoherent. “People sat back and watched it like the World Series.”??? What does that mean? I think it reflects the “Weather Channel” mindset of treating weather like entertainment or an infomercial. This is one of the reasons I will NEVER again trust the Weather Channel to get my weather information…
I think Heidi should have a wrestlng match with Joe Bastardi to see who really knows what they’e talking about w.r.t. climate. My money’s on Joe!
L Ron Hubbard could not beat this shit
Who was the person on the Weather Channel that wanted to revoke AMS certification for anyone who didn’t believe in AGW? I think, but I’m not sure, it was Heidi Cullen. I do know it was a woman, but I don’t remember who. Anyone, after she (whoever she is) said it, an Alabama meteorologists, James Spann, said:
Here is the link: http://www.jamesspann.com/blog.htm
I hate the Weather Channel. One reason is a monkey is a suit could make more accurate predictions. Another reason is they play up every single tropical storm like it is the Apocalypse. Little wonder why the founder of TWC disowns them now.
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……“Day After Tomorrow” scenarios
#138,256, America is yawning at the idea of the sky falling.
tree hugging sister says:
August 2, 2010 at 5:28 am
It’s a shame sweet little Heidi couldn’t get all you haterhaters the first time she tried…
“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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As the world turns cold for the next thirty years, may dear sweet little Heidi reap what she has sown. At least Dr Judith Curry had the sense to try and straddle the fence.
If a meteorologist can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change,
What fundamental science of climate change?
This lady likes catastrophic, and won’t settle for less.
Great. When the Earth tips on it’s axis (due to some unforseen cosmic encounter), then we can have climate change you crawl under a rock over.
In the meantime, we are most likely due to receive a cyclical reminder of just how much Earth’s climate can vary over the course of a millenia.
In reply to Matthew and CodeTech:
I think of the CAGW issue as liberal/conservative. Isaac Asimov, being a stereotypical liberal, would have embraced the CAGW ideology. Of course, as CodeTech pointed out, Asimov was pretty sharp, and might well have been “excommunicated”, and was Judy Curry, for pointing out simplistic flaws in the CAGWers reasoning.
As to Science Fiction dealing with climate catastrophe from a conservative point of view, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did that in 1991 with “Fallen Angels”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_%28science_fiction_novel%29
A stem-winding sci-fi thriller? Brutal!