{"id":12537,"date":"2014-01-15T06:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/weather-channel-says-manmade-climate-change-a-factor-in-dispute-with-directv\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T06:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:09:35","slug":"weather-channel-says-manmade-climate-change-a-factor-in-dispute-with-directv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/weather-channel-says-manmade-climate-change-a-factor-in-dispute-with-directv\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Channel says manmade climate change a factor in dispute with DirecTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"In its fight to stay on the air on DirecTV, The Weather Channel has said that the need to push the global warming theory is a driving factor.\" alt=\"In its fight to stay on the air on DirecTV, The Weather Channel has said that the need to push the global warming theory is a driving factor.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/cc\/09\/cc09eea4cf01dddfc9c0ec886e9c2eaf.jpg?itok=i9J_dBbC\" width=\"320\" height=\"254\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its fight to stay on the air on DirecTV, The Weather Channel has said that the need to push the global warming theory is a driving factor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tuesday morning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in\">20 million subscribers to DirecTV found The Weather Channel missing from their viewing options<\/a>. The weather network has cited its need to sound the manmade\u00a0climate change\u00a0alarm as one of the reasons it needs to be available to the satellite provider\u2019s subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Some have said that\u00a0global warming\u00a0and manmade climate change will bring an increase in \u201cextreme weather\u201d events.<\/p>\n<p>David Kenny, chairman and CEO of The Weather Company,\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0today, \u201cThis reckless move by\u00a0DIRECTV\u00a0will 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While not overtly mentioning climate change, the implication is there.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/weather-channel-says-need-to-sound-climate-change-alarm-factor-directv-disput?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about how TWC plans to spread the word about manmade climate change on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday morning\u00a020 million subscribers to DirecTV found The Weather Channel missing from their viewing options. The weather network has cited its need to sound the manmade\u00a0climate change\u00a0alarm as one of the reasons it needs to be available to the satellite provider\u2019s subscribers. Some have said that\u00a0global warming\u00a0and manmade climate change will bring an increase in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/weather-channel-says-manmade-climate-change-a-factor-in-dispute-with-directv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather Channel says manmade climate change a factor in dispute with DirecTV<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,540],"tags":[736,677,131,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}