Why are local TV weather forecasters generally global-warming deniers? - Herkimer, NY - The Times

Why are local TV weather forecasters generally global-warming deniers?

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By Pat Cunningham

Let me state at the outset here that I don’t know if THIS applies to weather forecasters in the Rockford television market (or to the guy in the photo above):

[A] new study by researchers at George Mason University and Yale University [has] found that those with a “low engagement on the issue of global warming … are more likely to be influenced by their perceived personal experience of global warming than by their prior beliefs.” Summarizing the findings, Grist.orgreporter David Roberts writes that “people who have made up their mind have made up their mind,” but for those in ...

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