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Now TV meteorologists across the country report on climate change, though Maibach said they don’t always use those words. She faced bitter and sexist resistance from some viewers, including conservative leaders, as she challenged other TV forecasters to address global warming in their reporting.Ĭlimate Matters, a National Science Foundation-funded project, piloted in 2010 and fully launched in 2012 to support reporting on climate change by providing data analysis, graphics and other reporting materials. The Weather Channel gave its first climate reporter, scientist Heidi Cullen, a dedicated show in 2006. “More than once, I’ve had people call me names or tell me I’m stupid or these kinds of harassing type things simply for sharing information that they didn’t want to hear," he said.Ī decade ago, far fewer TV meteorologists were talking about climate change on air, although they wanted to do so, said Edward Maibach, the director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. Meteorologists have long been subjected to abuse, but that has intensified in recent years, said Sean Sublette, a former TV meteorologist and now the chief meteorologist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “They say, ‘You should have seen this note.’ And they try to take it with a smile, a lighthearted laugh,” Colman said. Gloninger’s announcement sent reverberations through a national conference of broadcast meteorologists in Phoenix, where many shared their own horror stories, recalled Brad Colman, president of the American Meteorological Society. And that is not a good situation to be in as a nation.” Many meteorologists say it’s a reflection of a more hostile political landscape that has also affected workers in a variety of jobs previously seen as nonpartisan, including librarians, school board officials and election workers.įor several years now, Gloninger said, “beliefs are amplified more than truth and evidence-based science.
For on-air meteorologists, the anti-science trend that has emerged in recent years compounds a deepening skepticism of the news media.
Gloninger's experience is all too common among meteorologists across the country who are encountering reactions from viewers as they tie climate change to extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes and floods in their local weather reports. So, on June 21, he announced that he was leaving KCCI-TV - and his 18-year career in broadcast journalism altogether. “I started just connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and then the volume of pushback started to increase quite dramatically,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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