Thursday, January 27, 2011
Poodle that didn't bark
Noticed something possibly interesting in NBC evening news coverage of the latest monster snow in NYC. Absolutely no mention of global warming.
Is this just an oversight, or a direct result of NBC's new owner? Under Comrade Immelt of GE, all programming, not just weather, was required to carry the Gaian message in one form or another. It was as constant and all-pervasive as the Christian message on Pat Robertson's network.
Might just be an oversight, but I'm going to keep watching.
One theme that did come through on all the networks is the utter incompetence of the regular "meteorologists". They had all predicted 4 or 5 inches, but the storms just sat there and gave 4 or 5 feet. Most likely this isn't because of a Gore-style assumption of tropical warmth; the frontline folks at the Weather Service are more practical than that. Still, their models seem unable to track and predict the movements of the jet stream. I've been seeing similar failures here, though our winter this year is not especially bad. (Knock on ice.) ¶ 6:37 PM
Is this just an oversight, or a direct result of NBC's new owner? Under Comrade Immelt of GE, all programming, not just weather, was required to carry the Gaian message in one form or another. It was as constant and all-pervasive as the Christian message on Pat Robertson's network.
Might just be an oversight, but I'm going to keep watching.
One theme that did come through on all the networks is the utter incompetence of the regular "meteorologists". They had all predicted 4 or 5 inches, but the storms just sat there and gave 4 or 5 feet. Most likely this isn't because of a Gore-style assumption of tropical warmth; the frontline folks at the Weather Service are more practical than that. Still, their models seem unable to track and predict the movements of the jet stream. I've been seeing similar failures here, though our winter this year is not especially bad. (Knock on ice.) ¶ 6:37 PM
