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Y2Kyoto: Run, You Little Green Sonsabitches
small dead animals — November 23, 2008 Y2Kyoto: Run, You Little Green Sonsabitches AnimatedDinosaur.gif AnimatedDinosaur.gif AnimatedDinosaur.gif AnimatedDinosaur.gif AnimatedDinosaur.gif It's Asteroid ...

NBC Pink Slips Are Actually “Green”
Deceiver.com — ... can find even more hypocrisy in all of this. Sal … Sal … Don’t you understand? NBC is doing this For Your Own Good. Without their helpful insights, Global Warming will overwhelm the planet, and We’re All Gonna Die.™ Or not. Either way, NBC has some ’splaining to do, since it has just fired the entire Environmental Unit at The Weather Channel. Smack dab in the middle of the network’s “Green Week.” From the “Capital Weather Gang” at The Washington Post ...

Downsizing at The Weather Channel
Patterico's Pontifications — ... I didn’t realize it but NBC Universal recently purchased The Weather Channel and last week it fired about 10% of TWC personnel in a cost-cutting reorganization. The cuts included most of the people who were the public face of TWC’s environmental series Forecast Earth: ...

TWC Clear-Cuts Enviro Show; Status of Critic Who Wanted to De-License AGW Skeptics Unclear
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Who says there aren't some positive side-effects to a slowing economy? I'd say this one, as reported by the Washington Post's "Capital Weather Gang" blog, qualifies: NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program ..... The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network ...

NBC’s failed sweeps stunt: The snowjob of Kilimanjaro
Michelle Malkin — ... was half the size, and she did it while in college, said Curry, who turns 52 on Wednesday. She learned of the assignment only three weeks ago, giving her little time to train… “I miss my family,” said Curry, whose clothes were clammy and wet from a rainstorm Saturday. “And also warm showers. And I could really use a stiff drink.” The exhausted NBC crew failed to summit and instead turned back with their 100 local tribal porters (nice of them to help the local economy, though those fired NBC/Weather Channel employees might question the expenditures). Curry will be back today ...

More Mixed Weather Posting
The LLama Butchers — More Mixed Weather Posting I see where some Weather Channel people, including the entire "Forecast Earth" group, are getting the axe : The layoffs affected about 80 people, but left the long-term leadership of the network unclear, according to a source who requested anonymity due to the continuing uncertainty at the station. Among the meteorologists who was let go was Dave Schwartz, a Weather Channel veteran and a viewer staple due to his lively on camera presentations. USA Today reported that meteorologists Cheryl Lemke and Eboni Deon were also let go. The timing of the ...