File this away in the "2016 just keeps getting weirder" file.
On Tuesday the Weather Channel — you know the place you go to see how likely it is you’ll have to shovel your driveway — attacked Breitbart News for a post last week that denied the existence of climate change.
Note to @BreitbartNews: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans https://t.co/ipP0fD2BEgpic.twitter.com/ypSMJ4eML6
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) December 6, 2016
"The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare,” James Delingpole, a British columnist, wrote in the Breitbart column.
The Weather Channel did not take kindly to the post, in particular its use of a Weather Channel video.
“Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week,” weather.com wrote. “The Breitbart article (is) a prime example of cherry picking, or pulling a single item out of context to build a misleading case. ....In fact, thousands of researchers and scientific societies are in agreement that greenhouse gases produced by human activity are warming the planet’s climate and will keep doing so.”
In the video posted on the Breitbart article, Weather Channel meteorologist Kait Parker discusses a La Niña effect bringing in colder weather during the winter, but she never addresses climate change. According to The Weather Channel, Breitbart is allowed to use the clip because of a content-sharing agreement with another company but “there should be no assumption that The Weather Company endorses the article associated with it.”
The Weather Channel may not endorse the article but the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology tweeted it out last week, prompting an outcry on social media.
President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon was the head of Breitbart News until he took a leave of absence to work on Trump's campaign.
On Tuesday the Weather Channel — you know the place you go to see how likely it is you’ll have to shovel your driveway — attacked Breitbart News for a post last week that denied the existence of climate change.
Note to @BreitbartNews: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans https://t.co/ipP0fD2BEgpic.twitter.com/ypSMJ4eML6
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) December 6, 2016
"The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare,” James Delingpole, a British columnist, wrote in the Breitbart column.
The Weather Channel did not take kindly to the post, in particular its use of a Weather Channel video.
“Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week,” weather.com wrote. “The Breitbart article (is) a prime example of cherry picking, or pulling a single item out of context to build a misleading case. ....In fact, thousands of researchers and scientific societies are in agreement that greenhouse gases produced by human activity are warming the planet’s climate and will keep doing so.”
In the video posted on the Breitbart article, Weather Channel meteorologist Kait Parker discusses a La Niña effect bringing in colder weather during the winter, but she never addresses climate change. According to The Weather Channel, Breitbart is allowed to use the clip because of a content-sharing agreement with another company but “there should be no assumption that The Weather Company endorses the article associated with it.”
The Weather Channel may not endorse the article but the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology tweeted it out last week, prompting an outcry on social media.
President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon was the head of Breitbart News until he took a leave of absence to work on Trump's campaign.