You know of the “Gore effect“, Wikiepedia describes it as “…an informal and satirical term which alleges a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and global warming activism”, so it was appropriate to apply to the situation where the Gore’s Climate Reality Project group tried a political ploys that looked stupid: “I’m Too Hot” trucks and offers of free ice cream to this week’s Environmental Protection Agency hearings on power-plant emissions…when it was 58 degrees and raining. Obviously, CNN’s Bill Weir doesn’t understand satire, much less how to be a professional journalist.
From Mediaite:
It’s safe to say CNN anchor Bill Weir is not a fan of climate change deniers.
On Thursday, the Twitter account for Fox Nation, a blog run by Fox News, tweeted a link to a post headlined, “Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore’s Group’s Visit to Denver EPA Hearings.”
The story, aggregated from the Washington Times, relates to a Denver visit by former Vice President Al Gore‘s “Climate Reality Project” for EPA hearings on power plant emissions.
The group showed up to hand out ice cream even though it was 58 degrees.
Weir retweeted the link, with his own comment: “Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks.”
[ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/494670062092296192 ]
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One wonders why he didn’t say same the same thing about Gore and his ice-cream trucks to treat the “I’m too hot” weather that never materialized. Oh, yeah, bias.
This is probably the best reason ever to tune out CNN, when they hire emotional children like this instead of journalistic professionals, it’s pretty much pointless to watch any longer.
After what I experienced recently, I’m beginning to think that most climate alarmists are nothing more than emotional children disguising themselves as professionals.
UPDATE: I posted this short message, twice. It was deleted both times, but the second time I saved a screen cap. Apparently Bill Weir has an ego that is easily bruised, or there’s somebody at CNN running interference.
You can look here as see that it is now missing.
[ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/494670062092296192 ]
Class act, guys. No bias there at CNN.
At 11:51 AM on 31 July, David Tolleris had asserted that:
And in that much, Mr. Tolleris (who is himself a meteorologist) is abso-friggin’-lutely right.
Though the humor of this situation obviously has escaped him, I can’t fault him too much for his critical disdain anent Fox News. Hell, I’ve known him for more than thirty years, and he’s not the kind of man who would fail to stay mindful of the biases among Fox’s ex-Journalism majors, too. Were that not enough, in the competition for eyeballs, Fox stations seek the attentions of the simple-minded just as much as do the leftards on the other networks, for the botched and the gullible of whatever political persuasion are more easily parted from their valuta, and the sponsors love them for this.
This, however, does make the Fox news programming a weak reed upon which the rigorously skeptical critics of the “man-made global warming” bogosity ought never to lean, even with appropriate reservations.
So how’s it going, Dave? Still wearing that deerstalker thitherabouts?
@Tucci78 – Wrong Dave. That is not the Dave Tolleris of WXRisk. Check his facebook link.
“Weather is not climate” – Thats going to be a epic stick to beat them over a head with every time there is a tropical storm etc that they try and blame on “climate change”. Weather isn’t climate. But it is when we say it is (When its For CAGW)
As I write this on a fine Aug 5 morning, it is 66 degrees in northern New Jersey. I cannot, in my lifetime, recall a summer that has been this mild. This is climate 2014 Mr. Weir, not weather.
It’s been a cool summer here in Colorado as well. Several daytime highs in the mid 50’s in July and one day in July it was necessary to turn on the heat. The temperature starts out cool, stays cool, it has reached 90 degrees a few time but only for a brief time then fall rapidly back into the 60’s. It’s the coolest summer that anybody ( that has lived here for awhile) can remember.
Steve Reddish:
Nor do need to attribute to me your own musings.I suggest that you learn how to comment without such tactics.