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Station Scientist
Broadcast meteorologists are often the only people in television newsrooms who have a background in science. That makes them qualified not just to deliver the weather, but also to provide more science news to the viewing audience.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS), the nation’s premier professional organization for those in the atmospheric and related sciences, is promoting the notion of regarding broadcast meteorologists as the “station scientists,” and equipping them to cover a broader range of science topics for their station, in addition to tomorrow’s weather. This would include environmental and space issues, weather and climate impacts on public health, transportation, agriculture, energy use, and other topics.
What's New:
7th Climate Science Briefing for
Broadcast Meteorologists: Extreme Weather and Global Warming
Resource Media, a communications firm specializing in the environmental
sciences, is hosting a teleconference for broadcast meteorologists on
the science in the most recent assessment reports on climate change and
extreme weather coming from U.S. government agencies.
The panel of scientists, who led the assessments, will brief
participants on the reports’ findings and how they relate to extreme
weather, including extreme events such as those that have devastated
many regions of the U.S. this year, including flooding, heat waves and
wildfires.
Reports that have been released in the past few months from NOAA, EPA,
USDA and the White House will be covered, among other topics, and there
will be a Q&A for callers. Links to the reports, a recording of the
teleconference and contact information for the panelists and other
resources will be available on the Internet on a companion Web site
during and following the call.
The teleconference/briefing will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 at 3
p.m. EDT/12 p.m. PDT. Bob Corell, Senior Fellow at the American
Meteorological Society and Global Change Program Director at the H.
John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, will
be the moderator. The panelists include Dr. Gerald Meehl and Dr. Kevin
Trenberth, NCAR; Dr. Peter Schultz, director of the U.S. Climate Change
Science Program Office; Dr. Kristie Ebi, independent consultant and
lead author of the EPA report; and Paul Gross, chair of the AMS Station
Scientist Committee and meteorologist, WDIV-TV Detroit.
Funding for the science briefing is provided by the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The
teleconference is a service of Resource Media, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit
organization. For more information, please contact Jillian Ward,
Resource Media, 415-397-5000 ext. 309 or 415-609-8500.
Scientific Assessment Captures Effects of a Changing Climate on
Extreme Weather Events in North America (PDF)
GUEST EDITORIAL:
COMMUNICATING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TO THE PUBLIC AND CLIENTS
By Bob Ryan and John Toohey-Morales
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
This often-used quote takes on a new meaning
these days because what to “expect” in the future
has become a spirited, often polarized, and increasingly
nonscientific “debate.” Increasing numbers of broadcast
meteorologists, to whom the public looks for information
and guidance on climate change and global warming,
are not offering scientific information but rather, all too
often, nonscientific personal opinions in the media, including
personal blogs.
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