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France - Top French weatherman 'sacked' over climate change book
Les Inrocks - Qui est Philippe Verdier, le chef du service météo de France TV climato-sceptique?
The controversy around Verdier’s claims has likely been heightened by their timing, with his book coming just weeks before the start of a much-anticipated UN climate change summit, known as COP21, to be held in Paris at the end of November.
"I put myself in the path of COP21, which is a bulldozer, and this is the result,” Verdier told RTL radio station in October.
He said he was inspired to write the book after France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met with TV meteorologists and asked them to highlight climate change issues in their broadcasts.
“I was horrified by this speech,” Verdier told French magazine Les Inrockuptibles last month.
In his book, Verdier accuses state-funded climate change scientists of having been “manipulated” and “politicised”, even accusing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of publishing deliberately misleading data.
France's top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change
According to Mr Verdier, top climate scientists, who often rely on state funding, have been “manipulated and politicised”.
He specifically challenges the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, saying they “blatantly erased” data that went against their overall conclusions, and casts doubt on the accuracy of their climate models.
The IPCC has said that temperatures could rise by up to 4.8°C if no action is taken to reduce carbon emissions.
Mr Verdier writes: “We are undoubtedly on a plateau in terms of warming and the cyclical variability of the climate doesn’t not allow us to envisage if the natural rhythm will tomorrow lead us towards a fall, a stagnation or a rise (in temperature).”
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And another receives the wrath of those in on the scheme. I love how the prime minister met with them to tell them to talk up climate change. I also note how he sees the cherry picking of data, as well.
The religion shall not be questioned! Heretic! /sarc
This is SOP for the ;left wing control mongers as well. Anything and any one that stand in their way to take all power and enslave people shall be dealt with harshly...
Or as some here like Crick likes to say "hypothetically....kill them..."
I'll give you a few minutes to either correct that quote or remove the quote marks before I report you for misquoting me.
Here's what the psychopath actually said, "Just from a hypothetical viewpoint, it would be a great deal more effective to "off" all the deniers."