Freedom of Speech? Not if you don't agree with me.

I am so angry about this. Never mind the topic. What this woman is saying is, essentially, "If you don't toe the line and agree with what I am saying, then you don't get a voice." Quoted from the article:

"Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement."

How dare you, Dr. Cullen. If you were to have your certification or degree pulled because you spoke against "conventional wisdom," you would be screaming your head off about the loss of your constitutional rights.