Amazing - The Weather Channel "Forecast Earth" treats climate change as a fact.

The show is on right now.

Dr. Heidi Cullen talks about "the sixth major extinction going on right now".

On the Weather Channel!!

I saw an earlier show in this series a few weeks ago.

They must only get away with it because no one watches the Weather Channel
most of the time, and on Saturday night - the viewership must be negative.

Anyway, check it out - 9-10 PM EST

the weather forecasting business.

Santorum Wants to Privatize Weather Forecast
by David Rossie

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But no. Now he has, in a way, taken up Charles Dudley Warner's 108-year-old challenge: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Ricky doesn't propose to actually do anything about the weather, but he is determined to make sure that only certain people talk about it.

As things now stand, weather information -- current and coming soon to your neighborhood -- is available from the National Weather Service, via its Web site, or over one of those little battery-operated gizmos, like the one I keep in my kitchen, that broadcasts up-to-the-minute information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA).

According to the Tribune-Review, The National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005, introduced by Ricky on April 14, would, if passed,"bar the National Weather Service from providing any service that competes with the private sector."

In other words, American taxpayers, whose dollars support the NWS, would not, if this wacky legislation were to become law, be able to obtain weather information from that source, because the same or similar service is provided by private weather forecasting companies such as AccuWeather, and the Weather Channel.

And here the plot thickens. The Tribune-Review notes that Joel and Barry Myers, founders and executives of AccuWeather, which has its headquarters at State College, Pa., have donated to Ricky's election campaigns.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0429-25.htm