Meteorologists critical to climate communication
June 21st, 2010 | Published in Blog | 1 Comment
Here’s a taste of a story I produced recently for the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
MIAMI – When it comes to communicating climate change, meteorologists are on the front lines.
“Television weathercasters may be the most prominent science communicators in our society,” said John Morales, chief meteorologist at NBC 6 in Miami. “The one scientist that everybody can relate to is the broadcast meteorologist on television.”
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A recent survey of television weathercasters conducted by George Mason University found that nearly two-thirds of meteorologists believe that scientists still disagree about whether climate change is occurring (see related Yale Forum story here).
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