"Why does the public trust weathercasters — especially since a prevalent stereotype of them is that they’re always wrong?" ...

It’s been a busy year for TV weathercasters: July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, unprecedented wildfires scorched the West, the worst drought in 50 years parched two-thirds ...

In a time when only a handful of TV news stations employ a dedicated science reporter, TV weathercasters may seem like the logical people to fill that role, and in many cases they do. In the largest ...

This week in TV-news bashing, we learn that significant numbers of TV weathercasters are serving as climate-change experts, without training in climatology but with lots of confidence in their ability ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Clinton administration hosted 100 broadcast meteorologists at the White House for a series of briefings on global climate change. Addressing a roomful of ...

Weather forecasters used to be some of the most trusted people in the news business. Then they began speaking openly about climate change. Meteorologist John Morales chokes up as he warns viewers in ...

For the rest of the hour, we're going to talk about climate science, speaking with climate science, here in Oklahoma and TV weathercasters. A recent survey of nearly 600 broadcast meteorologists said ...

In the long and fraught battle to persuade Americans that the Earth's climate is changing, scientists increasingly have relied on a stalwart ally—television weather forecasters. TV weather people ...

Clockwise starting at top left: Elisa Raffa (KOLR10/KOZL), Keith Carson (WLBZ/WCSH), Jorge Torres (KOB-TV), Heather Waldman (WGRZ). This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished ...

"Weathercasters take on role of science educators; feel some uncertainty on issue of climate change." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 03 / 100329103658.htm (accessed June 27, ...