Gloninger’s experience is all too common among meteorologists across the country who are encountering reactions from viewers as they tie climate change to extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes and floods in their local weather reports. For on-air meteorologists, the anti-science trend that has emerged in recent years compounds a deepening skepticism of the news media.
Yet the same people still expect meteorologists to use the same science to predict the weather for them.
I don’t think they are even aware that meteorologists predict the weather using science.
This kind of behavior needs to be clearly established as illegal and those laws need to be acted on. We’ve reached a point where all kinds of ordinary people are having their lives threatened over simply describing the world as it is. That has to stop.
