While we still have the «cone of uncertainty» we've become familiar with watching
television weather reports, today's models are more accurate than they used to be.
He plans to play host at a climate conference at Georgetown University next week to publicize the issue, and he invited dozens
of television weather forecasters to meet with him and Vice President Al Gore at the White House Wednesday, also to discuss global warming.
But it has also created tensions between two groups that might be expected to agree on the issue: climate scientists and meteorologists, especially those who serve as
television weather forecasters.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is running a campaign using
television weather presenters and national broadcasters from around the world, to influence the UN's Climate Summit 2014 scheduled for New York City on September 23.
Levels of trust
in television weather reporters, the mainstream news media, and scientists as sources of information about global warming have also dropped since June 2010 (by 9, 7, and 5 points respectively).
Maibach, who is now working on a further project to measure the effects the views of weathercasters have on their audience, added: «Most members of the public
consider television weather reporters to be a trusted source of information about global warming - only scientists are viewed as more trustworthy.»
Claudia Reynolds, M.A., has a background in media and creative ventures having spent eleven years as
a television weather anchor and, nearly simultaneously, fifteen years as a singer.