Francis Wilson in snub at current weather presenters: ‘All they have to do is stand there’

Francis highlighted there is no greater need for presenters with a “real meteorological understanding”.

He said the need for well-educated climatologists is rising because of potentially life-threatening events caused by global warming. 

“I’d go further and say that there is a moral obligation for weather presenters, when there is a serious and significant weather event, to say that this kind of intensity is entirely consistent with what we expected to happen – because of the man-made rise in temperatures,” he explained. 

“We need to tell people to stop warming the atmosphere, to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.