Sentences with word «weathercaster»

Since 2009, with funding from the National Science Foundation — and in partnership with Climate Central, the American Meteorological Society, NASA, NOAA, and Yale — we have been exploring and helping develop the potential of TV weathercasters as local climate educators.

Our team of data analysts, meteorologists, climate experts, graphic artists and journalists create graphics, text, animations, videos and research to aid TV weathercasters in presenting science - rooted climate information in clear, concise and relevant ways.

Our partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began in 2010, when we jointly proposed — with Climate Central, American Meteorological Society, NASA, and Yale — an NSF research grant to more fully explore the potential of TV weathercasters as local climate educators.

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.

The university's Center for Climate Change Communication and Center for Social Science Research surveyed weathercasters early in 2010 to see what effect the release of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (UAE CRU) had had on their views about climate change.

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.»

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.

«Opportunities and Obstacles for Television Weathercasters to Report on Climate Change.»

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.

Men were more likely than women to become more skeptical as were weathercasters with politically conservative views.

Surveys have found that weathercaster views on climate change are diverse, with a large majority...

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.

Paul Rudd's man - on - the - scene correspondent and sex god Brian Fantana is a kitten photographer; David Koechner's sportscaster Champ Kind now runs a fast - food franchise whose specialty looks like chicken but actually boasts a bigger profit margin (hint: he calls it «Chicken of the Cave»); and Steve Carell's Dada - dense weathercaster Brick Tamland is dead — but not for long.

Although it's only part of the whole picture, the contrast between weathercasters» short - term focus and the long - term time horizon of climate science is relatively easy to explain:

Few weathercasters talked about climate at the start of the project, Maibach said.

A Professional Meteorologist who was the first Weathercaster on «Good Morning, America» and the founder of The Weather Channel.

We soon learned that weathercasters also have unparalleled access to the public, and superior science communication skills.

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...

Weathercasters still tend to underestimate the extent of the scientific consensus on the subject.

The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.

Ed Maibach, one of the GMU research team, said: «Although subsequent investigations showed that the climate scientists had done nothing wrong, the allegation of wrongdoing undermined many weathercasters» confidence in the conclusions of climate science, at least temporarily.»

As a result, each week over 300 weathercasters nationwide currently receive broadcast quality Climate Matters materials they can use to report on the local impacts of climate change.

To that end, we intermittently survey weathercasters to learn more about how best to support their efforts.

The partnership has grown into a remarkably productive collaboration — also involving Climate Central, NOAA, NASA, and Yale — focused on supporting TV weathercasters as local climate educators.

You and I observe the weather, not the climate (note the dramatic difference of opinion about the reality of climate change between climatologists and television weathercasters).

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:

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.

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

They certainly have a better sense of what they've been up against than most, so their optimistic take on Obama's outreach to weathercasters was encouraging.

The short - term variations that throw the weathercasters» forecasts out of whack barely register at all.

The outreach to weathercasters is particularly significant, if somewhat complicated, because weathercasters are often meteorologists, but rarely climatologists, and have often been a source of significant climate misinformation in past.

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For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global warming in a manner acceptable to the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union and other advocacy groups.

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.

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

Beginning with a single weathercaster in 2010, our Climate Matters partnership now provides localized broadcast quality materials to more than 300 weathercasters nationwide, and is growing rapidly.

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.

The program expands upon a project called Climate Matters, which provides localized materials to more than 500 weathercasters nationwide, but now broadens these trainings and materials to cover a wider range of climate change impacts and solutions, helping a wider array of media professionals with diverse reporting responsibilities.

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).

Today, we are pleased to announce the publication of an article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science describing the remarkable growth of the Climate Matters program — which is now used by over 330 weathercasters nationwide.

In an online experiment conducted in two South Carolina cities during and immediately after a summer heat wave, the effects on global warming risk perceptions were examined following exposure to a TV weathercast in which a weathercaster explained the heat wave as a local manifestation of global warming versus exposure to a 72 - h forecast of extreme heat.

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