I have several programs for students in the elementary, middle and high school levels. The first is for students in the second grade and under called "The Wonders of Weather" This is a basic program to show the students the variety of weather and climate that exist on our world. I cover all weather phenomena such as snow, rain, hail, sleet, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, dust storms and mcuh more. I show the students some of the extremes of hot and cold. I have striking photos of snow flakes and storms. The idea is to open up their young eyes to the amazing atmosphere without being too complex. I always take as many questions as possible at the end of the program.

The program I have for grades 3 through 8 is called "How the Weather Works" This is a much more in depth look at how our atmosphere works with my vivid powerpoint program. I start with the sun then the earth's movement around it. I detail the seasons and how the tilt of the earth's axis creates the variety of weather we have each year. I explain how the vertical temperature profile is made by the sun heating the ground then the air above. I cover air density and the layers of the atmosphere. How we measure the weight of the air with barometers and how the wind blows around areas of heavier air and lighter air. I go into detail about the temperature difference across the planet and how that combined with the earth's rotation creates the wind and the weather. I spend some time on atmospheric moisture. I teach the students about the variable ability of the air to hold water based on temperature. I use this concept to show how clouds and precipitation are formed. I have a section on snow and how we use weather balloons to measure the temperature, humidity, wind speed and pressure above the ground to predict what type of precipitation will fall. Errosion is caused by weather. I show the students what cold fronts and warm fronts are and the different types of weather they bring. I go into some detail about how lighting is made and how it produces that loud noise we call thunder. From there I go on to hail formation, flash floods and micro bursts. After that it's tornadoes, hurricanes and finally a little about the forces of nature that produce climate change. All in all this is an hour long program packed with weather and what makes it happen. I answer as many questions as possible at the end. I also tell the kids about my experiences in school and how education is about freeing your mind so you can free yourself.

The program I have for high school students is called "Understanding Global Warming" This hour long powerpoint show gives the students a look at the science of this issue. Newpapers, magazine, television shows, news programs and movies have their own point of view of global warming with the intent of increasing their audience. My program cuts to the heart of the matter with real world data and observations. Powerful forces of nature have controlled the climate in the past and are continuing to do so today. Computer models are the only evidence that humans affect the climate and computer models are not evidence. I will demostrate clearly with vivid graphics how computer model foreasts are not able to predict the climate 50 to 100 years in the future. In fact they can't even "predict" the climate of the past. The warming of the climate is nothing new nor is the current warming unusual or unprecedented. In fact the earth has been warming for some 300 years since we began coming out of the "Little Ice Age" that dominated the earth from about 1400 to 1850. The melting of glaciers is used by some to say "See the glaciers are melting and we are doing it!" but the melting of glaciers is nothing new, they have been melting and at time advancing for 250 years. Long term changes in solar activity have a strong relationship to global temperature and in this program you will come to understand this. All five data centers that track global temperature show no global warming for 12 years. The earth is now in it's eighth year of global cooling. Changes in the sun and the oceans are causing this. Today's students will soon be tomorrow 's voters and they will need to know the science, not the politics of this major issue to make educated choices. My program will give them that.

Please feel free to email me for availibility and cost.

Oh those folks over at the National Geographic channel just can't get enough of global warming. The latest scare them to death program is called "The Big Freeze". The show actually starts out with some decent science. There are details of what factors go into creating an ice age. The changes in the earth's orbit, tilt and wobble are known as Milankovitch cycles. The show has some nice graphics depicting this. There are details about how we know what we know about the past climate. That's always been part of the problem with these programs. They start off with science then go off to science fiction. The show lost me was when the producers tried to equate the amazing amount of warming that took place at the end of the last ice age to future global warming. From the end of the last ice age to the current climate the temperature difference is about 10 degrees or so fahrenheit. Over the last 150 years our thermometer record shows a rise of about 1 degree fahrenheit. Computer models of climate show a wide range of warming in the next 90 years, from as low as 3 degrees to over 6 degrees. These predictions are already being proven to be far, far from reality. In 2001 the United Nations Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change predicted that by 2009 the earth's average temperature would be 1 degree warmer than it was in 2001. Not only was the forecast wrong it was in the wrong direction! The temperature of the earth is actually about 1/3 degree fahrenheit cooler than 2001. The magnitude of the error 1.3 degrees is greater than all the warming that has taken place in the last 150 years! It's equivalent to predicting a sunny day with highs in the 90s and getting a snowstorm with highs in the 20s, it's that bad. But in their quest to produce a dramatic eye catching program the producers go for broke. Anyone who has done any research into the theory of man made global warming by doubling of carbon dioxide knows the limits of increased CO2. A doubling of CO2 without feedbacks is at most 2 degrees fahrenheit. To get the kind of numbers the United Nations IPCC gets you have to enhance the warming with water vapor feedbacks. There is simply no way any warming in the future will be anything like the natural warming that took place at the end of the last ice age. But as is always the case with these shows the effects are dramatized to make for a splashy show. Remember with watching anything on TV. It's always a show. Sometimes its made to look and sound like science but in the end it's always a show.

Here are the events coming up where you will be able to see my weather programs. Most are free and I will have DVDs available for sail for $10.00 that many of you will find interesting.

Columbia Library, Columbia CT 860-228-0350, 9/15/09 Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm...I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Hamden Adult Education, Hamden CT 203-407-2040, 9/21/09 and 9/28/09 Monday two evenings 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Please call for cost and ask for LouAnn Gallicchio. She will location and other information. This is an enrichment program offered by the Hamden adult Education Department. The class will meet on two consecutive Monday nights. The program is called "How the Weather Works" and details the basics of what makes our amazing weather. If you're interested in learning why storms happen and what drives the weather this is a great program for you. I will show you everything from fog to Hurricanes and how they work. After attending these two classes you will have a much better idea of why our weather is the way it is!

Hamden Adult Education, Hamden CT 203-407-2040, 9/22/09 and 9/29/09 Tuesday two evenings 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Please call LouAnn Gallicchio for cost, location and more information at the above number. This class is Called "Global Warming update: What the New Media and your Government won't tell you". There is so much to learn about this topic that is NOT available in newspapers, television and radio news report, magazines and other forms of media. These organizations have their own agenda and it's not about telling you the whole story of global warming. In this two night program you will learn the sometimes shocking truth about how powerful groups and even our own government have slanted the story of global warming for their own advantage. Is the Earth warming rapidly? NO. Is there solid scientific evidence that human burning of fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm? NO. Is the melting of glaciers around the world evidence of human made cliamte change? NO. Do most climate scientists agree that human activity causes global warming? NO. Learn the truth about this subject in these classes. It will open your eyes.

East Granby Library, East Granby CT 860-653-3002, 9/23/09 Wednesday evening 7:00 pm free. I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Meriden Adult Education, Meriden CT 203-630-4190 10/5/09 and 10/19/09 Monday evenings  6:30 to 8:30 pm. Please call Don Friedman at the above number for cost and more information. The program is called "How the Weather Works" and details the basics of what makes our amazing weather. If you're interested in learning why storms happen and what drives the weather this is a great program for you. I will show you everything from fog to Hurricanes and how they work. After attending these two classes you will have a much better idea of why our weather is the way it is!

Meriden Adult Education, Meriden CT 203-630-4190 10/26/09 and 11/2/09 Monday evenings  6:30 to 8:30 pm. Please call Don Friedman at the above number for cost and more information. This class is Called "Global Warming update: What the New Media and your Government won't tell you". There is so much to learn about this topic that is NOT available in newspapers, television and radio news report, magazines and other forms of media. These organizations have their own agenda and it's not about telling you the whole story of global warming. In this two night program you will learn the sometimes shocking truth about how powerful groups and even our own government have slanted the story of global warming for their own advantage. Is the Earth warming rapidly? NO. Is there solid scientific evidence that human burning of fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm? NO. Is the melting of glaciers around the world evidence of human made cliamte change? NO. Do most climate scientists agree that human activity causes global warming? NO. Learn the truth about this subject in these classes. It will open your eyes.


West Hartford Adult Education, West Hartford CT 860-561-6900 10/8/09 Thursday evening 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Please call Ruth Kozlowski for cost and other information. I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Glastonbury Adult Education, Glastonbury CT 860-652-7253 10/13/09 Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Please call Nancy LaPerla for location, cost and other information. The program is called "How the Weather Works" and details the basics of what makes our amazing weather. If you're interested in learning why storms happen and what drives the weather this is a great program for you. I will show you everything from fog to Hurricanes and how they work. After attending these two classes you will have a much better idea of why our weather is the way it is!

Glastonbury Adult Education, Glastonbury CT 860-652-10/21/09 Wednesday evening 6:30 to 8:30 pm.Call Nancy LaPerla for information and cost. This program is called "How to Make a Weather Forecast". Have you ever wondered how meteorologist make a weather forecast? In this one night class you will find out. How does a weather forecast get on television? All the inside secrets will be let out of the bag from a 25 year television veteran. Do the people on the news always get along? find out.

Westbrook Library, Westbrook CT 860-399-6422 10/22/09 at 7:30 pm. Call Lew Daniels for information about this free show. I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Windsor Locks Library, Windsor Locks CT 860-627-1495 10/27/09 7:00 pm call Eileen Pearce for information on this free program.
I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Durham Library, Durham CT 860-349-9544 11/5/09 7:00 pm call Valerie Kilmartin for information about this free program. I'll be presenting "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather". This is a free program open to everyone and is appropriate for all ages over 8 years old. This program is about weather folk lore and weather legends that have endured through time. It's a fun show with humor and insight. I also touch on some contemporary weather myths.

Say it ain't so Joe!

I recently wrote a letter to Senator Joe Lieberman emploring him to vote no on the proposed cap and trade bill now before congress. Below is the letter that I received from the senators office.

Since the fall of 2004 I have been traveling across New england and the Nation with my weather programs. One of these is geared towards the elementary and middle schools. The program "How the Weather Works" is a detailed look at how nature makes the amazing weather around our planet. Near the end of the hour long weather lesson I give the kids an alternative look at the global warming issue. At least alternative compared to what they see on television news programs and so called science shows on cable networks. I'm not only doing this for the students. There are of course teachers in the room. I want them to see this as well so they are always on my mind even though I'm primarily focused on the students. I point out some of the predictions that are made of drastic sea level rises in the future, bigger and more frequent hurricanes and devestating droughts. All of this from global warming cause by humans burning fossil fuels. One of my big points is that carbon dioxide is not pollution. Without it there is no life on earth. Predictions of how much the temperature will go up are everywhere. With that in mind I show the students how temperature has changed in the recent 110 years. At times the temperature has gone up and at times it has gone down. Even with carbon dioxide levels increasing there has been no rise in global temperature for 10 years. The next slide is the downward trend in temperature for the last 7 years. I suspect many are suprised to hear that we are in the 8th year of global cooling. Finally we look at how bad the recent forecasts from computer models have been. They all showing rapid warming by 2009 from the 2001 forecast yet the temperature is going down. Oceans contain more than 1,000 times more heat then the atmosphere and I show the students how warming and cooling of the Pacific Ocean has influenced the changes in the global air temperature. The sun undergoes changes as well and through history a weaker sun has resulted in a cooler earth and a strong sun a warmer earth. There are many "climate disaster shows" on cable televison networks. I warn the kids to be wary of these. They may look and sound real but that is what they are trying to do. These programs use the credibility of a documentary format to "sell" the audience that this is real science. Then the producers of the show add drama and extreme images of disaster to create a feeling of impending doom, all in the name of getting people to watch. My point is that these programs are just television shows, not real science. The reaction to this by the students is interesting and at times enlightening. Most simply sit there and listen. Some don't listen at all and can't wait to get out of the room. A few will have questions but this varies from school to school. Some schools generate many questions. Some of the kids can be quite persistent in asking why I don't believe Al Gore and his famous movie. A very few kids will even come up to me after the program and continue to ask questions. Some are sure the whole global warming scare is a fake. Others are convinced it's real. What is very interesting is the reaction of the teachers. All of them that care to share their feelings with me after the program are happy that I have given the kids a different point of view then what they normally get. There are probably teachers who don't want this different opinion to happen but they have never come up to me and said so. The teachers who share their feelings about this may not agree with my opinion all the time but they are willing to hear another side and for this I am encouraged about the future. Our children need education not indoctrination.

For those of you interested in seeing one of my presentations I will list my upcoming public appearences for you. Most of my presentaions are at either private institutions like adult retirement communities or schools or other such non public facilities. But from time to time I appear at libraries or other public settings so hear is what I have for now.

I will be speaking at the West Hartford Senior Center on Wednesday June the 10th at 1:00 pm. I'll be presenting my one hour power point show called "Global Warming Update: What the news media and your government won't tell you" The event is free.

I'll be at the Newtown Senior Center on Wednesday July 22nd at 1:00 pm. I'll be performing a show called "Weatherwise: Myths and Mysteries of Weather" Please call the senior center for info.

On Thursday July 23rd I'll be at the Griswold Senior Center doing the same program. Call them for the time, I don't even know yet but most likely it's 1:00 pm.

I'll have more soon,

I just wanted to say what a very nice evening I had at the Torrington Connecticut library Thursday night May the 28th. We had a nice turnout of about 75 people. I was greeted warmly and the show went very well. I especially enjoyed the question and answer period after the program. It's always a challange to field those hot grounders I get from people. You never know what some folks are going to ask but that makes it fun and entertaining for me too! The event was upstairs in the renovated room that is now a nice place to give a program. I was fortunate to be able to hand out some publications dealing with global warming, the NIPCC report and a publication that deals with the many problems we have in trying to measure the surface air temperature. That one is by Anthony Watts of "Watts up with that" website. You should google him, he has a lot of very interesting data and writes quite well. By the way if anyone wants a copy of the very informative and authoritative NIPCC report just send me an email at skychaserman@cox.net and I'll be happy to mail you one. My hats off to the Hartland Institute for making them available. Once you've read the NIPCC report you'll have a much more informed view on the global warming issure when you talk to your friends. I'm going to try and blog more than I have in the past. So come back every once and a while and I will have some new information on what I've been doing and what's ahead in my public speaking tour. By the way if you haven't seen the new Star Trek movie you should even if you're not a long time fan like me.

I just wanted to say what a very nice evening I had at the Torrington Connecticut library Thursday night May the 28th. We had a nice turnout of about 75 people. I was greeted warmly and the show went very well. I especially enjoyed the question and answer period after the program. It's always a challange to field those hot grounders I get from people. You never know what some folks are going to ask but that makes it fun and entertaining for me too! The event was upstairs in the renovated room that is now a nice place to give a program. I was fortunate to be able to hand out some publications dealing with global warming, the NIPCC report and a publication that deals with the many problems we have in trying to measure the surface air temperature. That one is by Anthony Watts of "Watts up with that" website. You should google him, he has a lot of very interesting data and writes quite well. By the way if anyone wants a copy of the very informative and authoritative NIPCC report just send me an email at skychaserman@cox.net and I'll be happy to mail you one. My hats off to the Hartland Institute for making them available. Once you've read the NIPCC report you'll have a much more informed view on the global warming issure when you talk to your friends. I'm going to try and blog more than I have in the past. So come back every once and a while and I will have some new information on what I've been doing and what's ahead in my public speaking tour. By the way if you haven't seen the new Star Trek movie you should even if you're not a long time fan like me.

As a meteorologist who has worked in the television news business for 25 years I've had the good fortune to work with many street reporters. Given my length of service and the significant turnover of reporters that I have observed in that span of time I have worked with hundreds of them. Some remain on the local level for their entire careers and a few climb the ladder an make it all the way to the network level. In many cases there is very little if any difference in the ability of those who make it to the top to those who stay local. It is my observation that those who make it to the network level are simply those who network management feels can help generate the largest audience. This is fine, after all if you have a circus and there is knowone under the tent than there is no circus. The vast majority of these reporters are just trying to do the job presented to them each day. It is difficult to be an expert on everything. The reporters job is to get the facts (as well as can be determined in a very short period of time) shoot some video and then organize all of that into a story that might be a minute and a half long. My point here is that to examine an issure as complex as global warming takes much more time than most reporters are given to do a story. With tighter budgets and reduced staff reporters are being asked to do more with less in less time. This does not lend one to look deeply into most issues especially one as deep as global warming. An added complication to this is the lack of science education given to reporters in college. Based on my experiences with news reporters most if not all have almost no background in science. This is not their fault and it is not my intention to slam reporters because the required courses in college were not geared to evaluating science issues. But when it comes to global warming stories most reporters and add to this news anchors because most anchors started as reporters, simply don't understand the fundamental science involved. So if you're a reporter what do you do? Well the first thing is to do the story in a way that advances you're career. That means don't tick off the news director or the general manager. These managers have to answer to the bosses at the network or corporate level. Television networks and their affiliated stations are owned by corporations. Many of these corporations are invested in "going green" to attract more advertisers. Of course anytime you see "going green" on television or in print or on some product it's 1984 code speak for "We believe in manmade global warming and out product will help cure that sin". So as a reporter it is not a wise move to advance any thinking that might bring into question who or what is behind global warming, especially that it might be a natural cycle of the sun and oceans. This could be the fastest way to ending any career moves upward. So is there pressure on reporters and anchors to keep their mouths shut and go along with the envioronmentalists gloom and doom predictions? yes. Many television meteorologists have expressed their concern about the one sided global warming reporting. And many of them have been called into the news directors office and been told to clam up or move out. This is fact but of course this is news that will never be reported. Only those in the business and who know the meteorologist personally know this. This is the strange "climate" will live in. As the world temperature continues to go down (also never reported) reporters and anchors both at the local and national level are in a difficult position. They don't have the science background to understand the issue and pressure from above could spell disaster to their careers if they question the corporate dictates and motivations.

Now it has come down to this. The IPCC is now lying about the global temperature trend over the last 10 years. The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change is the United Nations organization that meets about every 5 years to evaluate the state of the climate and make predictions and recomondations on what to do about it. As I have said in the past this organization is not scientific it is political. Now they have proved my point. In October of this year, 2008 the chairman of the IPCC Rajendra Pachauri was giving a talk and slide show at the University of New south Wales Australia. He stated and showed a slide saying "We're at a stage where warming is taking place at a much faster rate". He was refering to the global temperature trend for the last 10 years. This is such a bold faced lie that it numbs the mind that anyone much less the chairman of the IPCC could make it. It is as if he would then say "and the sun no longer rises in the East, it now rises in the West". All of the major data centers show no global warming for the past 10 years, all of them! Yet Pachauri expects us the believe him. They must be getting desperate. The climate is not responding the way they say it should so now they are resorting to lying thinking nobody will notice? It is remarkable and unimaginable that someone in his position could state such a lie. Later that day on an Australian television show called Lateline Pachauri stated that people who disagree with his statements about global warming are "flat-earthers" borrowing this tired line from his buddy Al Gore. Again these statements prove that science is not what the IPCC is about. The IPCC is another corrupt United Nations organization with a political and financial agenda. Will the New York Times, Newsweek or Time magazine report this lie? no they won't. They are too deeply invested in the global warming scare to reverse direction. Some major news group must call Pachauri on this. A lie this big can't be allowed to stand.