Golf at The Pointe

Played a round of Golf today at The Pointe Golf Club in the Outer Banks.
Was paired with an interesting fellow from Canada. We had lots of interesting conversation about various number of topics. When I asked what he did he told me that he did the national weather for the Weather channel in Canada.

After a brief career as an actor, Patrick de Bellefeuille joined the Weather Channel just before the wave in the grafted chain specializing in 1988. Already passionate communication he soon developed a great interest in weather and climate change. In a competition of weather presenters in Paris in 1996, he met a group of scientists and weather presenters of the 4 corners of the world who dedicate themselves to the disclosure of information on climate change among the general public.Over the following years he won at the competitions, 3 in 4 equity prices and the price of Presenters (1996) and 2 times the big prize of the event (1997 and 2003)
For over 10 years Patrick has annually participated in international conferences on climate change either as participant or a speaker. He also spent several weeks in two years, first from the Amundsen icebreaker Canadian who is studying the impact of climate change on the Arctic, to produce over 20 shows and over 30 capsules daily calls on the subject, broadcast on the Weather Channel. It is also thanks to him that the chain has the mandate to popularize, for viewers, various weather phenomena in the context of a capsule called Weather 101.