Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Government permission needed to issue weather forecasts‏?

We read:
"Weather forecasts are often unreliable but would you send your local weather forecaster to jail for 10 years? A newly proposed law in South Africa would punish unauthorized weather forecasts with jail time and fines, according to the Mother Nature Network.

The law would require state-sanctioning for any weather forecasts issues outside of the government's South African Weather Service (SAWS).

The proposed law, if put into effect, would affect weather outlets including the SA Weather and Disaster Observation Service (SAWDOS), which relies on weather reports submitted by the public. SAWDOS was recently credited with issuing timely warnings for three storms that may have helped to mitigate property losses and damage.

"As the amendment bill now reads, nobody will be able to issue any warning of approaching severe weather," SAWDOS founder Johan said in an interview with the Daily News. "Experience has taught us that to get permission from any institution takes time — that is if you can get hold of the designated person."

Source

7 comments:

Bird of Paradise said...

Big brother gose green only weather reports that use the Global warming lie will be allowed to broadcast

Anonymous said...

Many birds are also green, including plumage of your species!

Anonymous said...

Forget the weather. In spite of what the left-wing Kool-Aid gulpers tell you, only God and Mother Nature can change the weather.

What they should do is use a law like this with so called "journalists". If you report the news, and your report is untrue, politically biased, or based on rumor or innuendo, you go to prison.

Go Away Bird said...

There was warming periods in the past long before factories and SUVs and 747s and even before hollywoods green hypotcrits like JOHN TRAVOLTA and LUARIE DAVID

stinky said...

While I agree that AGW was and is a hoax, I'm not sure that mandating "weather" forecasts makes sense from that perspective.

More likely is that some bad, but connected (e.g. union?), forecasters don't like the competition outperforming them.

A. Levy said...

Careful Bird, leftists get confused by facts. Laurie David, like her husband, is a full-blown communist. And Travolta? What can you say about a guy who sees a science fiction writer as his god? DUH. Maybe he should've stayed in Mr. Kotter's class a few more years.

Go Away Bird said...

Yeah J.Levy the leftists are so easy to confuse becuase they cant think on their own