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Climatologists, Meteorologists and "Weathermen"

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2010-02-20 09:45 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 841

Reference: Charles Homans, Columbia Journalism Review, Hot Air, Why Don't weathermen believe in climate change?, Jan/Feb 2010

Charles Homans explains the differences between climatolgists, meteorologists and the everyday weatherman that you see on TV. The science of climate change looks at the long term factors affecting global climate, both in the past and into the future. It is an extremely complex science best left to climatologists and their sophisticated computer models. Meteorologists look at weather and seldom more than one week ahead. It also is a complex science involving computer models, but a largely different set of skills from those of climatologists. The everyday weathercaster that you see on TV is often also a meteorologist, but not always. Sometimes he/she is just another presenter with little skills in the actual science of weather.

One of the most out spoken weathermen on TV is John Coleman on San Diego's KUSI. He is indeed a popular weatherman because his academic skill set is not meteorology, but journalism. He obtained his journalism degree from the University of Illinois in 1957, and as a career weather forecaster on TV has picked up considerble knowledge of meteorology. He can make fabulous weather presentations and is recognoized for that. But he also is a climate change skeptic, and has used his weather pulpit to bash the climatologists on climate change. And he has been highly successful at it, mainly because the public trusts the weatherman and doesn't question his credentials. It's much like famous Hollywood actors or politicians being asked to chime in on climate change and global warming. They are no more experts on global warming than Coleman.

I trust the scinetific research and analysis of numerous professional climatolgists worldwide when they are raising alarms about climate change and global warming. I don't trust the local weatherman...and certainly not John Coleman, the KUSI weatherman. If the public understood this difference, we wouldn't have so many climate change skeptics doing Monday mornig quarterbacking after every snow storm.

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