Since 1977 Qualimetrics, Inc, has been a developer and manufacturer of surface and aviation weather measurement systems for aviation agencies, meteorological departments, and corporations. As Qualimetrics Inc. established itself as a leader in the industry it became apparent that the company needed a name more focused around weather and meteorology.

Therefore, in 1998 Qualimetrics Inc. became All Weather Inc. You can still purchase accurate and reliable weather systems at www.AllWeatherInc.com or call 1-800-824-5873 to receive information on any of AWI’s instruments.

We’ve worked hard to keep the spirit of Qualimetrics alive. Qualimetrics.com now is the home for meteorology and storm chasing enthusiasts. We welcome your thoughts, ideas, and questions on how to improve Qualimetrics. It is our hope that Qualimetrics will become a thriving community of like-minded individuals who are passionate in understanding the ever turbulent world of meteorology.

What is Meteorology?
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and short term forecasting (in contrast with climatology). Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries. Breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved in the latter half of the twentieth century, after the development of the computer.

Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables that exist in Earth’s atmosphere: They are temperature, air pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they change in time. The majority of Earth’s observed weather is located in the troposphere. Different spatial scales are studied to determine how systems on local, region, and global levels impact weather and climatology. Meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics, and atmospheric chemistry are sub-disciplines of the atmospheric sciences. Meteorology and hydrology compose the interdisciplinary field of hydrometeorology. Interactions between Earth’s atmosphere and the oceans are part of coupled ocean-atmosphere studies. Meteorology has application in many diverse fields such as the military, energy production, transport, agriculture and construction.

The word “meteorology” is from Greek μετέωρος, metéōros, “high in the sky”; and -λογία, -logia.

What is Storm Chasing?
Storm chasing is broadly defined as the pursuit of any severe weather condition, regardless of motive, which can be curiosity, adventure, scientific exploration or for news / media coverage.

A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser, or simply a chaser. While witnessing a tornado is the single biggest objective for most chasers, many chase thunderstorms and delight in seeing cumulonimbus structure, watching a barrage of hail and lightning, and seeing what skyscapes unfold. There are also a smaller number of storm chasers who chase hurricanes.

What is the Anthropogenic Global Warming Conspiracy?
Anthropogenic global warming conspiracy and global warming conspiracy theory are terms used to refer to the claim that there is no scientific consensus on global warming or that it exists but is incorrect, that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is incorrect, and that it is perpetuated for financial or ideological reasons.

The suggestion of a conspiracy to promote the theory of global warming was put forward in a 1990 documentary The Greenhouse Conspiracy broadcast by Channel Four in the United Kingdom on August 12, 1990. The program was part of the Equinox series, and it asserted that scientists critical of global warming theory were denied funding. Although the program uses the word conspiracy in its title, Patrick Michaels downplayed the idea, saying, “It may not quite add up to a conspiracy, but certainly a coalition of interests has promoted the greenhouse theory; scientists have needed funds, the media a story, and governments a worthy cause.”

Writing in the National Review in 1997, journalist Ronald Bailey said, “Militia members are famously worried that black helicopters are practicing maneuvers with blue-helmeted UN troops in a plot to take over America. But the actual peril is more subtle. A small cadre of obscure international bureaucrats are hard at work devising a system of ‘global governance’ that is slowly gaining control over ordinary Americans’ lives.” Bailey subsequently conceded that anthropogenic global warming is real, declaring that the “debate over whether or not humanity is contributing to global warming” is over.

In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on July 28, 2003, entitled “The Science of Climate Change,” Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) concluded by asking the following question: “With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?” Inhofe has suggested that supporters of the Kyoto Protocol such as Jacques Chirac are aiming at global governance.

A Washington Post article describing the views of global warming skeptics quotes retired climatologist William M. Gray as having “his own conspiracy theory,” saying, “He has made a list of 15 reasons for the global warming hysteria. The list includes the need to come up with an enemy after the end of the Cold War, and the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a political cause that would enable them to ‘organize, propagandize, force conformity and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and control) us to a better world!’” In this article, Gray also cites the ascendancy of Al Gore to the vice presidency as the start of his problems with federal funding. According to him, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stopped giving him research grants, and so did NASA.

The March 1, 2007 issue of Whistleblower magazine, a publication of the conservative WorldNetDaily website, is titled “HYSTERIA: Exposing the secret agenda behind today’s obsession with global warming,” and asserts that “all the main players—from politicians and scientists to big corporations and the United Nations –- benefit from instilling fear into billions of human beings over the unproven theory of man-made global warming”.

Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads Coalition notes that “Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN’s global warming negotiations as “an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of climate scientists have twisted their results to support the ‘climate change theory’ in order to protect their research funding” and adds, “Sounds plausible to us.” Retired geography professor Tim Ball wrote in a February 2007 interview, “You’ve got this incestuous little group that is controlling the whole process both through their publications and the IPCC. I’m not a conspiracy theorist and I hate being even pushed toward that, but I think there is a consensus conspiracy that’s going on.”

A 2007 Minority Report of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (updated in 2009) originally citing support of 400 “dissenting scientists”, and growing to 700 dissenting scientists. The report challenges man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore.

In 2009 conservative journalist James Delingpole wrote of a powerful and very extensive body of vested interests opposed to geologist Ian Plimer…”governments like President Obama’s, which intend to use ‘global warming’ as an excuse for greater taxation, regulation and protectionism; energy companies and investors who stand to make a fortune from scams like carbon trading; charitable bodies like Greenpeace which depend for their funding on public anxiety; environmental correspondents who need constantly to talk up the threat to justify their jobs.”

The Lyndon LaRouche organization claims that a scientific conference in 1975 was the origin of the “Global Warming Hoax” Former journalist Lord Monckton claims that the draft agreement for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 would establish a communist world government. This claim has been endorsed by the right-wing Australian opinion columnist Janet Albrechtsen Monckton also appeared in an episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, in which he stated that a scientific paper submitted to the IPCC did not include the criticizing peer reviews, which were deliberately omitted.

source: Wikipedia.org