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….
Heidi is one of many reasons I no longer watch the Weather Channel.
It’s really hard to push something that flys in the face of common sense.
Disaster sells in the media.
No one would watch the news, pick up a paper or magazine, that was titled “nothing going on”
A very appropriate image for all of this climate disaster nonsense: a hurricane in a bathtub.
Even if the sentence were grammatically correct, it would still be incoherent.
Aside from the misplaced dashes, the word “which” needs to be removed.
Why worry. All the phytoplankton will be gone soon anyway.
EPA says CO2 mostly threatens minorities.
I’m one of those “white” people, so I’m safe.
Wait by 2050 I will be in the minority, perhaps.
I’m so confused.
Seriously though,I’ll be 90 in 2050.
I’ll remember all this bull and I’ll relish it being rubbed in there little “warm” faces..
Phil. says:
“That would be unfair since Heidi is rather pettite [sic], a 5km race sounds more appropriate where my money would be on Heidi.”
No tenured academic can be forced to take a remedial spelling class, which is one more reason to get rid of the dysfunctional tenure system. Coasting through life on the backs of honest working people brings to mind this situation:
Or maybe Phil, whose spelling skillz are on a par with his science, is learning from the Governator:
Dateline Sacramento– The California governor has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official state language rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the Terminator’s Administration has conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as “Austrionics.”
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”, and “j” will be replaced with “y”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants yump with yoy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of the “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with the “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Along with ridding the state of the #1 scourge of humanity — plastic grocery bags — the Governator’s plan will enkourage the removal of the #2 scourge of double letters, such as in pettite, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” and “o” in the languag is disgrasful and it neds to go away. By the 4th yer pepl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou,” and after ze fifz yer, ve vil hav a rel sensibl riting styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis, and even profesors vil find it ezy to understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united stats of urop vil finaly kum tru in ur brav new Obama vorld!☺
There is a new movie out (Hollywood calls it a “documentary”) called “The Age of Stupid”. Haven’t seen it (don’t plan to) but her book sounds like more of the same.
Evidently people forget what they’ve learned in college. College ed. helped land me a job. Then I really began to learn my trade.
Same holds for climate scientists. In college they learned the “Scientific Method”and the pitfalls of loving an unproven hypothesis, that theory begets testing and that computer models prove nothing.
Then they go to work for organizations that believe computer models explain it all. No observation of reality necessary. They act as if data comes from these models.
Boeing builds jetliners using computer models but they still flight test an actual airplane in the real world. This is where there flight data comes from.
The models used are tools whose output is irrelevant to everyone but those who will proceed to real world testing.
Same should hold true for these climate scientists who have forgotten science.
The advantage of science/speculative fiction in an issue like this is that there is no need to be factually correct because it *is* fiction. One could just as easily write a fiction in which Roxor, the mad super-scientist from ‘Chandu the Magician,’ (1948 radio series) and a cabal of climate scientists plot to take over the world to reduce what they perceive to be an excessive human population. However, these days it might be hard to find a publisher or anyone interested in the movie rights for that kind of story.
As much as I would love to see New York City and criminal Wall Street permanently under water, there ain’t a snow balls chance in hell of that happenning.
Hey Heidi!: Would you quit and apologize, and then go where your abilities as a forecaster can not harm anybody, if it does not happen what you so charmingly say?
“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 man made catastrophic global warming.
Nolo Contendere says:
August 2, 2010 at 9:12 am
All those pseudo-science, rather post normal, channels keep on insisting in their disinformation endeavor.
BTW, in E.M.Smith’s blog, to my surprise (i am not American) I found the following:
….And that’s why we have a 2nd amendment. It’s not about hunting Bambi…
Ref – Michael says:
August 2, 2010 at 10:25 am
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Oh Ye of little faith!!!
Wait 90,000 years. It will. Wanna bet?
We’ll meet on the Moon at Tranquility Base in 90,000 Earth Years and check. If you win I’ll polish your Halo, if I win You polish my whatever (not sure what I’m gonna get when I get off this berg;-)
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are my favourites.
And from them, this one;
http://www.amazon.com/Mote-Gods-Eye-Larry-Niven/dp/0671741926/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280772038&sr=8-20
“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. ”
So she is a playground bully?
Heidi fired from program during the middle of NBC’s “Green Week”,
She not only is out of the Weather Channel, they ran her off.
Must have spent to much time chanelling the future.
Enneagram says:
August 2, 2010 at 10:38 am
BTW, in E.M.Smith’s blog, to my surprise (i am not American) I found the following:
….And that’s why we have a 2nd amendment. It’s not about hunting Bambi…
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The 2nd Amendment was put in place to help keep the politicians relatively honest and to serve as a warning…. that is why the politicians have been trying to get rid of it ever since. Known we have that right seems to make ordinary Americans more laid back too.
[snip – policy]
…interesting how this thread morphed into a discussion about authors of classic science fiction! Make mine Harlan Ellison for really disturbing future stuff…
The comparison of L. Ron Hubbard and James E. Hansen is interesting….much similarity in the resulting cult-like followings!! However, in terms of societal impact and economics, Hubbard was a piker compared to what Hansen hath wrought!
Good website for the interested, many classics are now royalty-free and thus archived:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070204073906/www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html
Sorry, mods, OT!
I wish people would stop referring to this book as SF. Real SF is bounded by science and known principles. It can extrapolate and extend, but it should not violate, without some explanation ( though granted that explanation sometimes needs a little hand waving for such things like FTL travel).
[REPLY – But . . . But what about Captain Zoom? ~ Evan]
NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the middle of NBC’s “Green Week”, as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.
Keep reading for more on The Weather Channel cuts…
A suggestion to this Board. Take the Weather Channel logo out of her picture. Her project was ended in 2008.
She is long gone and her “environmental unit” was all disbanded. Good riddance.
She wasn’t exactly doing weather forecasts.
“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.” – How corny can you get?
Miss Heidi doesn’t know her sports jargon either. It’s called home field advantage not “home team advantage.” Miss Heidi is probably dreaming of her starring oppoasite leo DiCaprio in the climate movie based on her book.
Heidi. Here’s a piece of sound advice.
We have entered a Grand Solar Minimum, guaranteed.
Find out where to buy a pair of snowshoes. You’re going to need them for the next 30 years at least!
So the situation with the Arctic is getting so bad that we have to shorten its name to “Artic”?
So Heidi got her 15 minutes of fame and is desperate for more. Poor little thing. Pathetic really.
Nice to see all the SF fans here. I always found Asimov over rated. Heinlein is great, Poul Anderson greatly under rated. The conclusion his and Karen’s “Murphy’s Hall” is looking uncomfortably like the future of the human race.
For later writers try Greg Benford and Greg Bear (both “Vitals” and “Quantico” are horror SF way beyond anything Stephen King has ever done.)