The Showdown Between The Weather Channel And Breitbart About Climate Change Will Have America As The Ultimate Loser

Who would have ever thought talking about the weather, in this case, climate change, is boring? Just recently, The Weather Channel called out right-wing website Breitbart for false and misleading claims about climate change. Of course, Breitbart did not take this lying down and offered a scathing rebuttal against The Weather Channel. Ultimately, though, the real loser in this will be America and the rest of the world where citizens will be forever skeptical about climate change.

Last Dec. 1, The Weather Channel called out Breitbart in a video and accompanying article titled, Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans. In it, The Weather Channel and its meteorologist Kait Parker made a stand against a Breitbart article that essentially says that the global warming scare is about to end.

“Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real”https://t.co/UfjMoFuiRq

— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) December 6, 2016

Furthermore, The Weather Channel expressed outrage that such blatant disregard to fact-checking about climate change was endorsed through a tweet by the United States' very own House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. This means that the 45 million global readerships Breitbart claims they have and added that to those who saw the tweet from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology means a lot of people have been greatly misinformed about the status of climate change in the planet.

The Weather Channel's Kait Parker added, "So next time you're thinking about publishing a cherry-picked article, try consulting a scientist first, and to all my fellow scientists out there: Let's make the facts louder than the opinions." On the other hand, Breitbart would not be Breitbart if it stayed quiet. In a rebuttal against The Weather Channel, Breitbart writer on the said controversial climate change article, James Delingpole, demeaned The Weather Channel in an article titled, DELINGPOLE: Weather Channel Hot For Fake News; Attacks Breitbart with Bad Science, Logic.

"Argumentum ad puellam pulchram. (aka the Argument from a Pretty Girl)" —@JamesDelingpole, re: the Weather Channel https://t.co/HwtvycMr2b — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 7, 2016

In their rebuttal, Breitbart disregarded The Weather Channel's claim on its erroneous reporting as an "argumentum ad puellam pulchram" aka the Argument from a Pretty Girl. It claims The Weather Channel was just out to access its millions of readerships. It also had a point-for-point rebuttal against the point-for-point claims of The Weather Channel. It even threatened to make The Weather Channel the meteorologists' equivalent to Kellogg's (Kellogg's withdrew ads supporting Breitbart and the right-wing website called for a boycott against all Kellogg's products in retaliation).

A source from Breitbart told Business Insider that Breitbart editor-in-chief Alexander Marlow said, "For years, the institutional left and legacy media establishment has gotten away with group think in the worst possible way when it comes to climate change. We look forward to exposing that in the coming weeks and months."

No one will win in this showdown of The Weather Channel versus Breitbart about climate change, but it will be the Americans and the rest of the people in the world duped by misleading articles about climate change that will ultimately lose. Yes, changes in the climate is normal, but these rapid changes and their devastating effects on countries will not change the fact that climate change is here and forever will stay. What are people going to do about it?