Talk:Bill Evans (meteorologist)

honorary degrees
I moved this uncited from the article, has anyone got support for it? Off2riorob (talk) 21:31, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Evans has an honorary degree, Letters of Humane Doctorate, from Dowling College in Oakdale, Long Island. He also has a degree in science from Sussex Community College in New Jersey.

Global warming position
It's has been suggested that including Evans' position on global warming may be a BLP violation ("... can make him unemployable for some positions, and we have no business portraying him that way if he isn't more persistently on record with such tendencies."). On Evans' 2007 blog promoting his book Category 7 (archive with pictures), Evans makes several statements endorsing others' positions that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is bad science. However, I have found no decent secondary sources on this, and everything I can Google up is old (mostly dating back to his 2007 book tour), so he could have privately changed his position since saying these things.

I realize that taking this from primary sources is very weak, but I think a meteorologist's public opinion on this subject, when being contrary to scientific organizations, seems rather worthy of mention, regardless of one's position on this issue.

My dog in this hunt: I initially added a sentence about a congratulatory letter he had written to The Nation about an AGW denialist article by Alexander Cockburn. Pretty minor stuff (especially as it is currently worded), but I don't believe this was phrased in a derogatory fashion; however, explaining the unseen letter on a pay site was awkward and verbose, creating undue emphasis in a relatively short article that otherwise had been sourced entirely from Evans WABC-TV bio. Since then I've seen a number of SPA's remove it without explanation. I would like to stop WP:OWN-ing this piece of trivia, so I'm dropping it in hope that others will consider how to handle the matter.

I'm really not trying to make Evans lose his job here. My goal was to maintain WP:NPOV in a very promotional-looking, apparently sanitized article. / edg ☺ ☭ 13:59, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * If in doubt, leave it out :). Seriously, I would like to see multiple reliable 3rd party sources before we "label" anybody anything. Taking a letter he wrote and then labeling him whatever from that smacks of orginal research/synthesis. BLPs require the highest standands and rightly so. Also, I haven't really looked at all the details here, just commenting/2centing in general. Carry on :) .....--Threeafterthree (talk) 20:45, 9 June 2011 (UTC)