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'Chris Gloninger was excited to start his new job as chief meteorologist at
KCCI, a TV station in Des Moines, when he moved to Iowa from Boston in 2021.
Gloninger had extensive experience — more than 15 years in TV meteorology,
which included a regional Emmy-award winning weekly series on climate change.
He looked forward to connecting the dots between weather and climate change
trends, but suspected it may elicit some grumbling from Iowan viewers.
"I expected pushback," he said. "I just didn't expect the magnitude and how
quickly it went off the rails."
At first the negative feedback was fairly standard.
"It was stuff like, 'I don't need to hear your liberal conspiracy theories on
our air. Take the politics out of your forecast,'" Gloninger recalled. "'You're
politicizing the weather, you're a puppet to the left.'"
But one year in, Gloninger began receiving a steady flow of harassing emails.'
Via Doug Senko.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
