Friday 28 April 2017

Amber Sullins Is The Chief Meteorologist at ABC15 News In Phoenix. She is Normally Given About Two Minutes To Talk About Sunshine. However, She Sometimes Manages to go Beyond the Next Five Days! VERY FAR BEYOND!!

How Climate Evangelists Are Taking Over Your Local Weather Forecast

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Meteorologist Jim Fracasso monitors weather in NOAA's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. 
Amber Sullins gets a minute or two to tell up to two million people about some extremely complicated science, using the tools of her trade: a pleasant voice, a green screen, and small icons denoting sun, clouds, rain, and wind.
She is the chief meteorologist at ABC15 News in Phoenix, so her forecasts mostly call for sunshine. Within this brief window, however, Sullins sometimes manages to go beyond the next five days. Far beyond.
"We know climate change could affect everything about the way we live in the future, from agriculture and tourism to productivity and local business," she once noted. "But at what cost?"

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