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.
h/t to Samuel Patterson at www.climatequotes.com
Re-education camps. Haven’t we been this route?
First they came for the weathercasters . . .
The reason weathermen don’t believe climate “scientists” is because weathermen have real experience about the vagaries of weather and instrumentation and climate “scientists” only have theoretical models.
I doubt whether weathermen will change their view just because some academic tells them that their model predicts the world temperature to a fraction of a degree in 100 years time, when those same models can’t predict the local temperature in a few days.
But I’m sure it will do the climate “scientist” good to get a solid grounding in practical climate/weather instrumentation/science!
Joseph D’Aleo, Joe Bastardi, John Coleman and Anthony Watts have been put first on the list.
Just in case anyone was wondering WHO controls the media here is an interesting tidbit:
JP Morgan controls 54 U.S. daily newspapers,and owns 31 television stations.
JP Morgan: Our next big media player? (April 13, 2010)
This is interesting because the U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917: shows J.P. Morgan interests bought 25 of America’s leading newspapers, and inserted their own editors, in order to control the media. Looks like the bankers are still keeping tight control.
The world’s No. 1 investment bank in 2009 was JPMorgan Chase & Co…. JPMorgan Tops Goldman in Investment Banking as Fees Swell 13%
Do not forget the leaked Danish text at Copenhagen that would have handed effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank. Chase was owned by the Rockefeller’s. Not only have three Chase bankers become the head of the World Bank, Rockefeller has also hosted annual luncheons at the family’s Westchester County estate for the world’s finance ministers and central bank governors, following the annual Washington meetings of the World Bank and IMF.
The money trail is always fun to follow.
Pamela Gray says:
January 15, 2011 at 2:13 pm
“This seems more like a spoof. Are you sure it isn’t?
Our only hope is that “We the people” have not become “We the sheeple”.”
We the sheeple it is because this nonsense is paid for with tax payers money without any protest.
Jeff Alberts says:
January 15, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Ah, ok. You made it sound like weather forecasts are currently accurate in any meaningful way.
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LOL, noooooooooo
Mike Haseler says:
January 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm
The reason weathermen don’t believe climate “scientists” is because weathermen have real experience about the vagaries of weather and instrumentation and climate “scientists” only have theoretical models
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Mike weathermen get slapped down on a weekly basis….
..but, believe it or not, they actually try to give accurate predictions
…Climate scientists move the goal posts, stay under their fluorescent lights, and claim the science is settled. They don’t even try to give accurate predictions, and don’t care.
Again, these same climate scientists think it’s all in explaining it. Just haven’t explained it right yet.
Like they really expect anyone to believe that there is one person alive, much less a weatherman, that doesn’t know all about it.
thegoodlocust says: “They just keep on getting creepier and more desperate.
Is it because they subconsciously sense the death of their religion or is some group like the Real Climate team pushing this crap behind the scenes?”
There a natural law that the number of workers who can contribute to a project is usually strictly limited, whilst the rate at which of hangers on** that join a “fad” is proportional to its apparent success.
The result is that there comes a point in any project whereby the quantity of “hangers on” begin to exceed those with a real interest and the project aims and objectives begin to be modified to satisfy the requirements of the hoard of hangers on with a detriment to the original objectives
Global warming has got way past that state! It is now there for the hangers on, it is there because it has to be there because they are there! The truth no longer matters: the only thing that matters is that everyone works to perpetuate the jobs of the hangers on!
**(i.e. consultants, PR executives etc.).
Lew Skannen says: Wrote
January 15, 2011 at 2:58 pm
“Pity it is so hard for US citizens to get visas to North Korea. The Grand Peoples Study House in Pyongyang would be the idea venue.”
You almost made me wreck my computer by spewing my drink on it.
+1000
It’s evil, evil, evil in more than one way. It’s also an ineffable shame George Mason University hosts a plainly political organization like 4C (Center for Climate Change Communication).
Recognized as the Soros, Media Matters, Josef Goebbels brain-wash model. It will fail. Unless a majority of weathermen are mindless drones – 0h-oh, on second thought …
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
I say this is a good use of our tax dollars. I have yet to meet a skeptic turned warmist, I have turned many warmists to skeptics, so to me this is obviously a great opportunity to educate some airheaded activists.
If this advertisement for the vacancy as described is real, my heart sinks, it really does.
Have we as a Western society descended to such depths of academic depravity? Does ‘proper’ education no longer occur?
I regret having to say this, and please snip me if necessary, but the only phrase that this solicitation for employment brings to mind is “Arbeit Macht Frei”.
A long time ago, when I was at University as a undergraduate, I sometimes ran into people who I thought, to put it bluntly; must’ve been educated to become that stupid. They had been educated beyond reason, usually having spent almost their entire “career” cocooned in an artificial universe.
What does not fit their theories and ideals of how things should be as they have been told, is beyond their perception. Everything that contradicts, must be wrong.
http://oilprice.com/Environment/Global-Warming/The-Big-Winners-in-the-Climate-Change-Money-Game.html
has anyone seen this ?? ‘follow the money’ has never had more cred.
regards
Did you notice that the instructor has to have a PhD in a “relevant social or learning science discipline”? In other words, the theory is for an educator to explain to skeptical atmospheric scientists what is wrong with the atmospheric scientists’ understanding of atmospheric science!
It gets more surreal by the week!
kwik says:
January 15, 2011 at 1:31 pm
“Resistance is futile”
The Borg.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg&fs=1&hl=en_US]
/sarc off
From the ad: “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.”
So a PhD in science would not be qualified. A person with conference papers (so at least two; say, one at Copenhagen, one at Cancun) on informal science education would be qualified as long as they have a non-science PhD.
Oh no they going to “empower” again! Baylor wants to empower the poor people of Belize. This Neo Marxist terminology has caught on in scientific organizations. Gee I’m a little worried about those more individualistic weathermen that refuse to be “empowered”. The indoctrinators may have them removed from their jobs. This oft-repeated notion of late of re-education sounds like something from the apparatchiks of a totalitarian regime. This is serious and worrisome stuff.
Since they are losing the argument they need something to keep the ball rolling. SkS has a foolish article claiming that the unusually high snow is further proof of global warming.
That crappy part is they are ignoring the perfectly normal snow extent for the year of 2010. Doesn’t mean they won’t try to tie every weather event to global warming.
The good news is the more BS like this that they pull, the less the average person will believe the increasingly outlandish claims.
http://theinconvenientskeptic.com/2011/01/snow-extent-for-2010/
“In Orwell’s novel, all citizens of Oceania are monitored by cameras, are fed fabricated news stories by the government, are forced to worship a mythical government leader called Big Brother, are indoctrinated to believe nonsense statements (the mantra “WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”), and are subject to torture and execution if they question the order of things.”
I didn’t think I’d see it in my lifetime. We need to add “WARM IS AGW”; “COLD IS AGW”;”EXTREME IS AGW”;”DROUGHT IS AGW”;”FLOOD IS AGW”; “STRESS IS AGW”;
With a list of qualifications like that, why would the ideal candidate want to be TV Weatherman instead?
Maybe they are looking for an answer to the
complexhot foot that Piers Corbyn and Joe Bastardi have given them.The HR Office at the university where I work is offering Influencer Workshops under its Professional Development Opportunities. Here’s a bit from the blurb:
“The ideas and techniques for the Influencer Workshops are based upon the books Crucial Conversations & Influencer. The ideas are that major problems can be changed by adjusting to a few behaviours. That to change behaviour requires helping to change the minds of people. Techniques are then used to show how personal motivation can be engaged to result the overcoming of reluctance & resistance. This is by connection to personal values. In essence, showing that the following techniques can effect change: create new experiences, create new motives, connect to a person’s sense of self, engage & connect to moral values.”
When they continually cry poor why are universities funding this crap for their staff? Why do they need to change people’s minds and overcome resistance?
kwik says: Wrote
January 15, 2011 at 1:31 pm
“Resistance is futile”
“The Borg.”
All Your Base are Belong To Us. I heard that before. Too Funny. I think it was from a Chinese translation error in a video game.
The English translation of the word al-Qaeda is, The Base.
I went and posted a link to this article at my local TV weather station, ABC7Chicago.