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Meteorolist Paul Douglas on global warming: right idea, not-so-recent news

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:37 PM EDT
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Was Douglas fired by CBS at least partly due to what he wrote about global warming in this Minneapolis Star Tribune?

... "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters - disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life - the threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism." ...

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npat

Yes.

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    Reply#1 - Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:40 PM EDT
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    Todnik

    I think people always get bent out of shape when it comes to talking about a prediction. Is he right? It doesn't matter. We should be allowed to speak our own opinions. If this was a religious group, people would think that this person(s) is crazy for saying such things. What it boils down to is we need to move ahead. I don't think the fired him because of this instance. They were doing (lean management) the only way that most of the business people know how, that is to trim the big money makers and let them go. This makes the stock holders happy, because it closes the margin of loss to make it look better while not caring about the person they just let go.

    Todd

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      Reply#2 - Tue May 13, 2008 10:21 AM EDT
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