Some have said that global warming and manmade climate change will bring an increase in “extreme weather” events.
David Kenny, chairman and CEO of The Weather Company, said in a statement today, “This reckless move by DIRECTV will have an impact on our role as part of the national safety and preparedness fabric of our country at a time when the volatility and frequency of weather events seems to be increasing.”
While not overtly mentioning climate change, the implication is there.
DirecTV dropped The Weather Channel last night. Does anyone really care?
Following a contentious dispute with satellite television provider DirecTV, The Weather Channel went dark on the service at midnight Monday. The loss of the network however has allowed other true weather networks an opportunity to provide news and information to the public.
The loss is the first major outage for The Weather Channel that brought 24 / 7 weather to Americans’ homes but has since given up on its core mission in favor of reality based television shows.
It is that shift in programming choices and the lack of true weather coverage that DirecTV cited in its decision to drop the network.
