could break a record tonight. if we hit 5 degrees the next 24 hours, we ll break a record going back over 142 years. okay, that s the weather forecast. it s cold and getting colder. so much for global warming, right? i mean, if it s this cold out, the earth can t possibly be getting warmer, right? now, it s an easy mistake to make. even your local tv weather forecaster can get confused by the concept. in fact, this is a list of weather forecasters compiled by forecast the facts, part of the center for american progress, thinkprogress.org, who have gone on record denying global warming exists. and in a 2010 survey, more than a quarter of tv meteorologists called global warming a scam. but here s the thing, global warming is not a weather forecast, and there is a big difference between climate and weather. for the record, websters dictionary defines weather as the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time
reminiscent to discredit the robust and sustained medical evidence that smoking causes cancers and kills tens of thousands of people every year. eventually enough people sat in hospitals with dying relatives to realize the truth. that s where we are right now. the question is, will we see it? one of the problems is that climate is abstract and weather is tangible. most of us don t know climatologists but we do know weathermen. the conduit for which we get the information about our weather. experts we recognize and see them in the street and we know their names and trust them. as new york times documented many are robust that the increased carbon emissions are warming the planet. one of the co-founders of the weather channel denounced global warming a as a scam. in a survey for climate change communication conducted in 2010, of the 571 tv meteorologists they surveyed only 27% agreed