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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (9087)	1/20/2007 11:12:28 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36923

Nobles: James Spann, the gutsy weatherman and climate skeptic who won't be intimidated by threats of decertification. This week, the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen called for the American Meteorological Society to decertify any local TV meteorologist who doesn't espouse the view that mankind is a "major agent of climate change." Mr. Spann, just an ordinary weatherman in north-central Alabama so far as we can tell, called this Inquisition for what it is. In a widely noticed blog post on Thursday, he called for skepticism toward the paid shills of the global-warming industry who want to silence their critics. "I would not listen to anyone that is a politician, a journalist, or someone in science who is generating revenue from this issue," he wrote. "I have nothing against 'The Weather Channel,' but they have crossed the line into a political and cultural region where I simply won't go." Follow the money, he says: "Billions of dollars of grant money is [sic] flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story." Mr. Spann, for his part, thinks that recent trends in global warming are a natural process. He won't be scare-mongered into changing his honest assessment that "the climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here." For thumbing his nose at global-warming intimidation, Mr. Spann is the Noble of the Week.