Chad Everett Myers is an American meteorologist and the severe weather expert for

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. He reports on weather trends across the United States and Canada on a daily basis.

Biography

Myers, a native of

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, earned a bachelor's degree in meteorology from the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the M ...

in 1987. He joined CNN in October 1999, moving up from working as the morning weather analyst at

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. He has received

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for contributing to the

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coverage, and for scientific explanations of the

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and its subsequent capping in the

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. He also covered the 2011 Japan tsunami and the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.

On-air

He was spoofed on ''

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'' after climbing into a mock-up of the Chilean miners' rescue capsule. The producers of the show shot him into the sun after showing him climbing into the mock-up. In 2005 during

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ...

reporting, Myers had an on-air argument with anchor

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, when she kept interrupting him during a broadcast. He yelled, "Let me talk, Carol!" after she referred to him by name in an attempt to encourage Myers to clarify some of the more technical terminology used in his report.

Climate opinions

In 2010 Myers claimed in an on-air interview that climatologists were only reporting the climate is changing because their jobs were at stake and that "they worked for the government". In August 2016,

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criticized CNN for having a "

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meteorologist"; however, Myers wrote that subsequent to 2013's crossing of 400 ppm carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, he was no longer a “

skeptic Skepticism ( US) or scepticism ( UK) is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the p ...

”, and had changed his views on the science behind climate change. "I concluded that my original theory of 'it could be something else' wasn't likely the case," Myers said.

References

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