Christian, Republican meteorologist says climate change is real
Meteorologist Paul Douglas talks climate change at Senior Expo
By Robb Murray
rmurray@mankatofreepress.com
By Robb Murray
rmurray@mankatofreepress.com
The Free Press, Mankato, MNMay 14, 2013
Meteorologist Paul Douglas says he isn't your typical voice for action in the climate change debate.
“I'm a Christian, I'm a Republican,” he told an audience of several hundred attendees at the ninth annual Senior Expo in Mankato. “And I believe climate change is one of the greatest challenges we've ever faced. We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. We're going to be seeing more crazy weather.”
With all the charm that made him one of Minnesota's favorite forecasters, Douglas made a case for taking climate change seriously.
Douglas, who rose to Minnesota fame after getting a job at KARE-11 in 1983, said he noticed in the 1990s that something odd was happening with the planet's weather patterns. More than ever, weather was hitting extremes in a way it never had.
“It was like Mother Nature lost her equilibrium, and now we're floundering somewhat,” he said. “This week, we're gonna go from frost on Mother's Day, to 100 degrees in two days. I've never seen that.”
He says skeptics, meanwhile, will sound their usual refrain: “They'll say, 'Where's you climate change, Paul? It's snowing in May.' To that I say, 'Can you see the entire globe from your window?'”
The problem with most skepticism is that people make judgments about climate change without having the facts, by listening to someone who doesn't have the facts (such as talk radio), or by making assumptions about global weather trends based merely on what's happening in their backyard.
Armed with facts, he says, any reasonable person must conclude that climate change not only is real, but that humans are contributing to it.
(More here.)
Meteorologist Paul Douglas says he isn't your typical voice for action in the climate change debate.
“I'm a Christian, I'm a Republican,” he told an audience of several hundred attendees at the ninth annual Senior Expo in Mankato. “And I believe climate change is one of the greatest challenges we've ever faced. We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. We're going to be seeing more crazy weather.”
With all the charm that made him one of Minnesota's favorite forecasters, Douglas made a case for taking climate change seriously.
Douglas, who rose to Minnesota fame after getting a job at KARE-11 in 1983, said he noticed in the 1990s that something odd was happening with the planet's weather patterns. More than ever, weather was hitting extremes in a way it never had.
“It was like Mother Nature lost her equilibrium, and now we're floundering somewhat,” he said. “This week, we're gonna go from frost on Mother's Day, to 100 degrees in two days. I've never seen that.”
He says skeptics, meanwhile, will sound their usual refrain: “They'll say, 'Where's you climate change, Paul? It's snowing in May.' To that I say, 'Can you see the entire globe from your window?'”
The problem with most skepticism is that people make judgments about climate change without having the facts, by listening to someone who doesn't have the facts (such as talk radio), or by making assumptions about global weather trends based merely on what's happening in their backyard.
Armed with facts, he says, any reasonable person must conclude that climate change not only is real, but that humans are contributing to it.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
of course, climate change is real. What's not real is the catacylsmic preditions 50 years hence when the global warming chieftain's can't tell us what the climate will be like in 2020 by running their bullet-proof models forward from 1970.
We are not going to wake up one day and the earth is going to be a scorched, barren wasteland of climate change fallout. Between now and 2070, there will have to be some sort of measurable change that leads up to that barren wasteland in 2070. So, I say, put your reputation on the line right now and make a prediction for 2020 and tell us exactly what the land will look like in Minnesota in 2020. Let's see if they're right.
I remember in 2000 during the Gore-Bush campaign when global warming was the hot button issue (pardon the pun). The pro-Gore Guardian UK newspaper claimed that by 2012, there would be no winter in the Northern Hemisphere due to global warming. MmmHmm. That prediction didn't really pan out, did it?
The doom-and-gloomers need to put their reputations on the line for a point in the future when they will still be alive to see the results of their predictions. I, as always, will remain skeptical of their claims of armageddon.
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