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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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:
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 meteorolog
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 meteorolog
in broadcast meteorology.
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.
Local television (TV)
weathercasters are a potentially promising source of climate education,
in that weather...
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.»