Sentences with phrase «tv weathercasters»

The partnership has grown into a remarkably productive collaboration focused on supporting TV weathercasters as local climate educators.

The results have been remarkable: On - air climate reporting by TV weathercasters has increased more than 1,200 percent over the past five years.

We embraced this challenge because when we conducted the first - ever national survey of TV weathercasters in 2010, we learned that nearly half said they would like to educate their viewers about climate change, but relatively few were doing so.

Since 2012, my colleagues and I have been working to help TV weathercasters educate their viewers about the local implications and the personal relevance of global climate change.

Local television (TV) weathercasters are a potentially promising source of climate education, in that weather is the primary reason viewers watch local TV news, large segments of the public trust TV weathercasters as a source of information about global warming, and extreme weather events are increasingly common (Leiserowitz et al.; U.S. Global Change Research Program).

In January, we surveyed all TV weathercasters nationwide to learn more about their evolving views on climate change and their activities as climate educators, and to explore other factors that are influencing their work in broadcast meteorology.

Five years ago — in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC)-- we tested the premise that if TV weathercasters educate their viewers about the local relevance of global climate change, it will make a difference.

Our first Climate Change in the American Mind survey, conducted in 2008, revealed that TV weathercasters are highly trusted sources of information about global warming.

For more information about our research and work with TV weathercasters: Reports Journal Articles Climate Matters Graphics Climate Matters Videos

These three factors, in combination, strongly suggested to us that TV weathercasters could become an important source of climate change education in communities across America.

In this video you will meet more terrific TV weathercasters who are using Climate Matters materials to educate their viewers about the local impacts of climate change:

Ioannidis says that researchers have become increasingly sophisticated at acquiring large amounts of data from genomics and other studies, and at spinning it in different ways — much like TV weathercasters proclaiming every day a record - setting meteorological event of some sort.

You are aware, I suppose, that your «authority» is a former TV weathercaster who lacks any qualifications in meteorology and that his «facts» are the usual recycled delusionist talking points, combined with a few new libels of his own invention.

Harsh headline, I know, but when you read what former Climate Progress propagandist Brad Johnson of the TV weathercaster pressure group «Forecast the Facts» has sent out in a press release late Friday regarding hurricane Sandy, you can only be left with one conclusion; he's purposely anti-science and anti-factual wrapped up in a bought and...

Say, be sure to check with Tony the TV weathercaster how that surface sites project is going next time you're over there.

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Local television (TV) weathercasters are a potentially promising source of climate education, in that weather...