Brad's Weather BlogWelcome! Here's where you'll find long-range weather updates and my personal thoughts about the weather, the world, my friends, work and faith. Jun 21, 2010, WBAP NewsTalk 820 AM / 96.7 FMSoon it will be one year since my cataclysmic career-change. After a 31-year career at KRLD/CBS radio, I and several other top broadcasters were called in without notice and told it was over. No contract dispute, no offense, no hard feelings, just good-bye. Two months later, WBAP NewsTalk 820 gave me a soft place to land and I hope the honeymoon never ends. Not only is WBAP the most enjoyable place I've ever worked, it's also the most successful, proving "nice guys can finish first." WBAP's audience share in DFW is over twice as large as its nearest competitor and still growing, with the addition of an FM frequency (96.7). WBAP has one of the longest-running morning shows (Hal Jay and the WBAP Morning News), the most honored radio reporter in the country (Jim Ryan) and the strongest lineup of local and national talk shows anywhere in America. The WBAP Weather Center was first established by the legendary Harold Taft in 1948. WBAP is the primary Emergency Alert Notification station for North Texas and a major source of news, weather and talk programming virtually nationwide between dusk and dawn. WBAP's 50,000 watt signal is heard in 42 states coast-to coast at night. It is an honor finally to be part of one of the greatest radio stations in the United States and finally working for a winner! Jun 21, 2010, WeatherOnCallCOMING SOON! WeatherOnCall.com is a new and very affordable ($25/yr) service that calls you whenever a TORNADO/SEVERE THUNDERSTORM/FLASH FLOOD Warning is issued for any of 9 counties in and around DFW. Once you set up your subscription and profile, your inbox and up to 2 internet-smart-phone/iPhone numbers will recieve a text with the warning and county. And iPhone users can touch on a clickable link that will take you to a live realtime broadcast of the warning, radar and storm information. Your cell phone can now be your emergency weather information device. Mar 12, 2010, Brad BartonAbout Brad Barton Permalink -- click for full blog post "Brad Barton" Mar 12, 2010, SponsorsPeople of quality, professionals you can trust Permalink -- click for full blog post "Sponsors" Dec 7, 2009, Weather MapsWeather Maps Permalink -- click for full blog post "Weather Maps" Dec 5, 2009, Travel CitiesCity by city travel forecasts at a click Permalink -- click for full blog post "Travel Cities" Nov 24, 2009, Climate Change UPDATE June 21, 2010Since the worldwide Climate Change scandal was first exposed roughly a year ago, it's collapsed like a house of cards. You can read more at my Facebook page. If manmade climate change is "irrefutable," then why did the leading researchers resist freedom-of-information requests, threaten to destroy data, manipulate data to minimize medieval warming and hide the stabilizing and even declining trends in recent temperatures? If the science is settled, disclosing the facts and methods of statistical analysis will only bolster their conclusions. It's as if the Roman Catholic church someone managed to hide evidence that the earth is round. Nov 20, 2009, Global Warming Over?Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents. At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average. Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year. Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations. Reached a Plateau The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact." Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility. "It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community," says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. "We don't really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point." Nov 8, 2009, Man-Made Climate ChangeDr. S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, a distinguished research professor at George Mason University, and president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project. He performed his undergraduate studies at Ohio State University and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. He was the founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami, the founding director of the U.S. National Weather Satellite Service, and served for five years as vice chairman of the U.S. National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Dr. Singer has written or edited over a dozen books and mono-graphs, including, most recently, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years. This eminent scientist addressed the issue of Global Climate Change in a speech at Hillsdale College in 2007. It's likely you have never heard of Dr. Singer or any of his views in the popular media. If you had, you would understand the issue with greater simplicity and clarity than 99% of academia who've succeeded in confusing millions. It is the most reasoned and rational discourse on the subject of Global Warming I have found. Please click on the link below and take the short time it requires to read Dr. Singer's address on an issue of even greater world impact than national health care. You'll be glad you did. Oct 17, 2009, Lightning Safety Tips You Need to KnowLightning dangers, avoidance and safety information. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Lightning Safety Tips You Need to Know" Oct 17, 2009, My FaithMy site would not be complete without telling you something about my faith. I am convinced by creation itself that it was no random accident of chance. A Supreme Being of immense intelligence and power designed and created the Universe and all it contains. If that is true, it is paramount that those creatures empowered to think and reason, find the answer to the following question: What does that Being expect from me? I have found that answer and many others in what has become my home-church for many years.
The Bethel Methodist Church, an independent Wesleyan denomination, has four churches in Texas; Southlake, Port Neches, Robinson (Waco) and New Braunfels. A fifth church is being started in Fredericksburg in late 2009. Our church promotes conservative moral values, strong, spiritual bible-teaching and a traditional worship experience. What you won't find is the drumbeat of constant donation drives and fund-raising campaigns. If you're looking for a warm church family you can be a part of, and a message that can answer some of life's more important questions, please feel free to visit any Sunday or Wednesday. Oct 17, 2009, Recessionmamas.comCarla, Heather and Katie have a great site for triumphing over your financial circumstances. The best revenge is living well. Check 'em out! |