The Iowa meteorologist who quit after death threats got nice e-mails, too
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Emily Atkin, Jul 27, 2023,
Heated
“The vulgar, awful, cruel things people said; it was shocking,” Gloninger told HEATED in a recent interview, where he recounted his experiences attempting to weave climate science into his weather coverage in a deeply conservative area of the country. Glonginger had been hired specifically for that purpose—but in two years, he’d received little positive response.
Fearing a drop in ratings, the station asked Gloninger to limit his climate coverage, which he says he refused to do. So the negative responses kept pouring in, and eventually, last month, Gloninger resigned, citing PTSD and family health issues. The announcement drew coverage from nearly every major news outlet in the country.
But though the station and Glonginger hadn’t known it, hundreds of people had indeed appreciated the climate information in their forecasts. After Gloninger announced his departure, he received 262 e-mails—all reviewed by HEATED—from viewers expressing positive feedback for his work.
"It was unbelievable,” he said. “I realized I was maybe wrong in the sense that people weren't watching.
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Gloninger is now chief scientist at the Woods Hole Group in Massachusetts.
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