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France's top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change

Glaciers are shrinking, animal ranges are changing, flowers too, and they bloom earlier than they did. How much change do you need? Flowers are a case in point. William Wordsworth wrote a famous poem about daffodils, describing coming across a "host" of golden flowers. His sister recorded that walk in her diary, so we know exactly when and where it happened. April 15th 1802. Present-day vistors who visit the site on that day find only the occasional bloom still in flower, they almost all flourished and died weeks before.

No surprise. 1802 was in the middle of the Little Ice Age. Learn first, then post.

Figure 1: Source: Figure 7c in the IPCC FAR



Relative Homogeneity of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and The Little Ice Age (LIA)

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Hockey Stick” graph produced solutions for three facts challenging the claims of key IPCC climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The problems appeared in Figure 7c in the 1990 First Assessment Report (FAR) (Figure 1). The three problems it created…
 
Glaciers are shrinking, animal ranges are changing, flowers too, and they bloom earlier than they did. How much change do you need? Flowers are a case in point. William Wordsworth wrote a famous poem about daffodils, describing coming across a "host" of golden flowers. His sister recorded that walk in her diary, so we know exactly when and where it happened. April 15th 1802. Present-day vistors who visit the site on that day find only the occasional bloom still in flower, they almost all flourished and died weeks before.

If the earth's climate was static, you'd have a point. Sadly for you and all the other AGW types, the earth's climate isn't.
 
Glaciers are shrinking,

Primarily because of Black carbon (soot) releases as a very fine aerosol in the atmosphere, but obsolete power plant burning technology.

Clean glacier ice has an albedo as high as 98%. It takes very little soot, too fine to see by eye, to change the albedo below 80%. At 20% radiant energy absorption, the ice melts ten times faster than at 2%.
 
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[h=2] Phillippe Verdier, journalist, weatherman, sacked for daring to be skeptical[/h]
How they do overplay their hand.
Is there any better proof of how fragile the facade is? The evidence for the Big Scare Campaign is so pathetically weak that it cannot cope with one weatherman who writes a critical book. They are so afraid they did not even muddy the waters — it’s obvious why he was sacked. Verdier was suspended immediately after he launched his skeptical book. Now a month later, sacked.
From France24:
“I put myself in the path of COP21, which is a bulldozer, and this is the result,” Verdier told RTL radio station in October.
Right now thousands of people in France are wondering why being a skeptical journalist (as he calls himself) is such a crime. They are also wondering how many other meteorologists are skeptical but too afraid to speak out.
One thing everyone knows for sure now is that France24 is definitely not telling them the whole story about global warming. (See Sputnik News, no paywall)
[h=1]French weatherman Philippe Verdier sacked for being a climate sceptic[/h] A French weatherman has broadcast the news of his own sacking, saying he had been fired for writing a book challenging climate change.
Philippe Verdier, arguably France’s most famous weatherman, took to the internet to read a letter from the state broadcaster informing him of his dismissal.
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I guess it all just boils down to this really .......

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Climate change McCarthyism
 
Science is about allowing people to question findings.

A meteorologist writing some personal opinions in a book isn't "science" any more than is Jenny McCarthy spreading lies about vaccination.
 
A meteorologist writing some personal opinions in a book isn't "science" any more than is Jenny McCarthy spreading lies about vaccination.

AGW isn't science either. It is an unproven and non empirical hypothesis
 
A meteorologist writing some personal opinions in a book isn't "science" any more than is Jenny McCarthy spreading lies about vaccination.
His training makes him uniquely qualified to question the data.
That he lost his job for questioning the dogma should concern anyone in that area of science.
 

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Philippe Verdier: talking about climate change “in a different way”


Posted on 07 Nov 15 by Alex Cull1 Comment
Here’s a transcript of an interview with Philippe Verdier, former weatherman on France Télévisions, which was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 16th October 2015. Continue reading →
 

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Philippe Verdier: talking about climate change “in a different way”


Posted on 07 Nov 15 by Alex Cull1 Comment
Here’s a transcript of an interview with Philippe Verdier, former weatherman on France Télévisions, which was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 16th October 2015. Continue reading →

Happy Saturday, Jack. :2wave:

IMO, sacking people who disagree with the official line on climate change only serves to make them more credible to most people, because it makes one wonder what the others are so afraid of that there can't be a difference of opinion tolerated anywhere in the world? Is this what it has come to? :bs: :thumbdown:
 
Happy Saturday, Jack. :2wave:

IMO, sacking people who disagree with the official line on climate change only serves to make them more credible to most people, because it makes one wonder what the others are so afraid of that there can't be a difference of opinion tolerated anywhere in the world? Is this what it has come to? :bs: :thumbdown:

Happy Saturday, Polgara.:2wave:

Ever since Martin Luther. "Here I stand. I can do no other."
 
[h=2] Phillippe Verdier (Top French Weatherman) was sacked, now hired by Kremlin[/h]
It’s an upside down world. Now, to be allowed to speak freely, dissident scientists depend on Russia.
Phillipe Verdier was France’s main weatherman on the big public TV channel. In October he released a skeptical book, and immediately got told not to come back to work. Sacked for holding the wrong opinion.
Now, Verdier is working for Russia Today.
French news outlet Le Figaro reports Philippe Verdier is covering the United Nations climate summit in Paris for Russia Today France. Verdier has a daily news segment dedicated to covering what goes on during the U.N. climate talks.
“Hello I am very happy to talk to you about the daily COP21 … in freedom,” Verdier said in his first segment on Russia Today, according to a translation by The Daily Caller News Foundation, clearly taking a swipe at the French media for firing him. Keep reading →
 
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