By BILL CHAISSON
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SUNAPEE — Next Tuesday, April 16 there will be “forum on climate change” at the Sunapee Middle/High School called “Climate Change: the Science Behind Extreme Weather.” To date the panel includes Joe D’Aleo, a meteorologist who helped to found The Weather Channel; Ron Moore, a storm chaser and weather historian; and Fred Ward, a meteorologist who was on the air with WNEV (now WHDH) television in the 1970s and is the husband of state Sen. Ruth Ward (R-Stoddard).
The facilitator for the evening will be Josh Moore, a former Republican state legislator and the founder of The Patriotic Initiative, a nonprofit that works to help people “to acquire and apply a fundamental understanding of America’s founding heritage, and relate those principles to current issues.”
Moore, who is the son of Ron Moore, said that each panelist would give a presentation. The panelists would discuss the presentation and then take questions from the audience. None of the panelists have a background in climatology or paleoclimate. D’Aleo and Ward are meteorologists whose careers have been spent predicting the weather. The younger Moore is frank about his suspicion of climate change, stating that it has been “used to pass ‘big government’ policies that are against the Constitution.” When asked to elaborate, he said that was a “longer conversation.”
He promised, however, that climate change and its relationship to extreme weather would be presented in a “fun and comprehensive way” next Tuesday.
This is The Patriot Initiative’s first forum on climate, but it has organized two other events in New Hampshire, one in Hampton that focused on “restoring education” and another that offered “training on constitutional leadership.” “We are trying to communicate and facilitate a cultural shift among high school and college students,” he said. When asked to elaborate about the nature of the proposed shift, Moore demurred, saying that it too was a long and complex conversation.
The event, which is being presented with the cooperation of the Merrimack and Sullivan county Republican parties begins at 6:30 p.m. and is expected to last two hours.
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