Denier Weathermen Lash Out At Forecast The Facts Campaign: ‘Blacklisting,’ ‘Sh*t Website,’ ‘Gestapo’

By Brad Johnson on Jan 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm

John Coleman's anti-science presentation

Right-wing weathermen who publicly reject climate science have responded with anger and vitriol to a campaign that exposes their influence on the American public. More than half of TV weather reporters don’t believe in human-induced climate change, even as our poisoned weather grows more extreme. Forecast The Facts challenges the American Meteorological Society to take a clear stand against these anti-science ideologues.

After ThinkProgress Green promoted the campaign, listing dozens of the prominent television weathermen who publicly heap scorn on scientific reality, the anti-science weatherguy community has lashed out:

Rush Limbaugh‘s “good guy” meteorologist Ryan Maue complained about the “left-wing sh*t website black-listing on-air meteorologists.”

Accuweather Senior Vice President Mike Smith agreed that the ThinkProgress article “amounts to blacklisting.”

San Diego’s KUSI-TV weatherman John Coleman said it was “very disturbing” that “the activists now feel the need to campaign to get us under control.”

Cleveland’s WJW-TV weatherman Andre Bernier said: “The day the AMS strong arms anyone to tow the AGW is the day I disown them.”

Retired TV weatherman John Ghiorse called the campaign “the ultimate in gestapo tactics.”