NY Times: New Voices (TV weather presenters) on Climate Change

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/energy-environment/23iht-green23.html?_r=1

New Voices on Climate Change

By JAMES KANTER
Published: November 22, 2009

Joe Witte, a meteorologist for News Channel 8 in Virginia and Maryland, hopes that people watching his television forecasts will think about more than just the weather.

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Changes in the bay’s temperature have been “large and significant,” Mr. Witte said. “That’s a scientific curve we can show on the air and then ask viewers, ‘Will your children and grandchildren still be able to go crabbing?”’

Presenters like Mr. Witte are still rarities. Among public figures, television weather presenters are relative latecomers to leading efforts to deepen knowledge about climate change.

Wary of offending viewers and the authorities, who might be skeptical about the effect of human beings on climate, and mindful of making references to hugely complex science during three-minute broadcasts, most presenters have studiously avoided using their prime-time slots to discuss global warming.

But that may be changing.

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1. There is plenty of evidence, temperatures are changing.

Large ice shelves are breaking up. Some think it is a conspiracy theory and it really isn’t happening?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/ts_afp/australianzealandantarcticaclimateiceberg