{"id":526044,"date":"2010-04-13T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5528"},"modified":"2010-04-13T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:37:46","slug":"tv-weathercasters-divided-on-global-warming-by-suzanne-bohan-contra-costa-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526044","title":{"rendered":"TV weathercasters divided on global warming by Suzanne Bohan, Contra Costa Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before Spencer Christian, a weather forecaster with KGO-TV Channel 7 in San Francisco, steps before the camera during the station’s 6 p.m. newscast, he scrutinizes a computer screen to analyze the latest forecasting data. <\/p>\n

But unlike some of his counterparts, Christian doesn’t view his extensive knowledge of storm fronts and high-pressure systems on the week’s weather as credentials to assess the effects of greenhouse gases on the Earth’s climate in the coming decades. <\/p>\n

“The climatologists are the experts in this field,” said Christian, who started weather reporting in 1975 and worked for 12 years as the weather anchor on “Good Morning America” in New York City before joining KGO-TV in 1999. <\/p>\n

Christian is among the majority of TV weathercasters \u2014 but a slim majority, only 54 percent \u2014 who believe that the planet is warming, according to a new survey.
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