Meteorologists Quotes

• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Weather, Skins

  E. B. White (2014). “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

  Willard Scott

  Southern, Baptists, Southern Baptist

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• The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.

  James Pollard Espy

  Stars, Independent, Waiting

  James Pollard Espy, Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (1857). “Message from the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the Fourth Meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy”, p.40

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• I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

  January Jones

  Marine, Wanted, Biologist

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• Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.

  Clifton Anderson

  Eye, Past, Accomplishment

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Butterfly, Wings, Causes

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• Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

  Lewis Black

  Liars, Mean, Knows

  "Global Warming Cleverly Hides Itself With 1 Million Sq Miles More Arctic Ice" by Jazz Shaw, hotair.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Talking, Weather

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• The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

  Francis Bacon

  Encouragement, Wonder, Snowflake

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• I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

  John Mayer

  Locals

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.

  James Taylor

  Creating, Majority, Doe

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• I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.

  James Spann

  Men, Hype, Tvs

  "'The Weather Channel' Mess". www.alabamawx.com. January 18, 2007.

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Climate, Professional Competence, Growing

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