From the Emmy award-winning producers of Unknown Number and Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, Campfire Studios, the Academy award-winning producers of The Loneliest Whale, Appian Way Productions, and veteran director, Sarah Gibson...

THE WEATHERMAN follows meteorologist Chris Gloninger as he reports on the link between extreme weather and climate change on Iowa’s local news station, KCCI. That is until his dream job turns into a nightmare when a viewer’s violent messages escalate to a police investigation, criminal conviction, and the end of a storied TV career. Chris’ story is only the beginning as we journey with him to uncover a disturbing pattern of intimidation, misinformation, media censorship, and defunding across the country aimed at silencing meteorologists, and ultimately, jeopardizing the well-being of a nation.

Every 19 days, a billion-dollar extreme weather and climate disaster occurs in the United States. Insurance costs are skyrocketing if not wholesale dropping communities. Supercharged hurricanes are reaching towns 200 miles inland. Devastating floods are taking lives because the public is not hearing the urgency of the climate crisis. When we should be trusting and investing more in the meteorologists who keep us safe, we’ve seen cuts to NOAA, to climate research, in media coverage of climate change, and the shuttering of meteorology departments at universities.

Talking about the weather used to be the safest conversation topic – today, we face a great divide. This film and its ambitious impact campaign aims to re-establish trust -- in scientists, experts and in each other -- because we can’t survive without it.

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