Jeff Poor, writing for The Business & Media Institute, a sister organization of the Media Research Center, the conservative-leaning media critique operation, quotes CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers (pictured above) as dismissing global warming concerns, calling such concerns a form of "arrogance":
“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”
Wow! Myers is running counter to the sacred orthodoxy of modern eco-liberalism, as promulgated by folks like Ted Turner, the founder of CNN. The visionary-but-crazy Turner was long ago pushed out of his cable creation by the bean-counting suits at Time-Warner, but his hard green spirit still lives in CNN and most of the rest of the MSM.
Now interestingly, Myers spoke out on a CNN show, "Lou Dobbs Tonight," hosted by Lou Dobbs, who has a unique status at CNN, having been sort of grandfathered in as a conservative-populist. But Myers doesn't have that sort of clout.
So what will happen to Myers for flouting this conventional wisdom? I mean, we know that the mere truth is no defense.
The BMI's Poor provides some perspective, by recalling the apostasy-followed-by-contrition of another CNN weather man:
Another CNN meteorologist attacked the concept that man is somehow responsible for changes in climate last year. Rob Marciano charged Al Gore’s 2006 movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” had some inaccuracies.
“There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano said during the Oct. 4, 2007 broadcast of CNN’s “American Morning.” “The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming.”
Marciano also said that, “global warming does not conclusively cause stronger hurricanes like we’ve seen,” pointing out that “by the end of this century we might get about a 5 percent increase.”
His comments drew a strong response and he recanted the next day saying “the globe is getting warmer and humans are the likely the main cause of it.”
So here's betting that Myers will issue a "clarifying" statement soon. Or else.
