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Speaking of weather forecasting, In From The Cold has a well-researched post on the global warming to-do sparked by the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen. I won’t call her Dr. Cullen, because she’s not a physician, and my journalism training makes me balk at giving apparent physician status to a doctorate in anything else. As for the issue at hand–Cullen’s endorsement of global warming as human-made and her cheeky call for meteorologists who don’t get in line with her to be decertified by the American Meteorological Society–I have yet to meet a broadcast, or for that matter National Weather Service, meteorologist who believes global warming is a human product. That’s not to say that it isn’t, although there’re good arguments that it isn’t. Just that I–and apparently most of them– think the jury is still out. As Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, has said: the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, must be spinning in his grave.

UPDATE  Well, Coleman might be spinning in his grave, if he was dead. But he seems to be still doing the weather at KUSI-TV in San Diego.