{{Short description|American meteorologist}} {{Infobox person |name = Greg Fishel |image = Greg Fishel right profile WRAL.jpg |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|2|19}} |birth_place = Lancaster, Pennsylvania |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = Meteorologist |partner = |relatives = |children = }}
'''Greg Fishel''' (born February 19, 1957) is a former meteorologist for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his B.S. in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University in 1979.
Fishel began his broadcast meteorology career in 1979 with WMDT in Salisbury, Maryland.<ref>{{cite news|title=11pm Newscast, 8/19/1980|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3PPY3glzU&t=19m18s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/NJ3PPY3glzU |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|newspaper=WMDT}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He joined WRAL in 1981, and became the station's chief meteorologist in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wral.com/rs/bio/1010713/ |title=Greg Fishel :: WRAL.com |author=WRAL |date= |work= |publisher=WRAL |accessdate=30 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914094639/http://www.wral.com/rs/bio/1010713/ |archive-date=14 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He resigned from the WRAL News Team in February 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wral.com/greg-fishel-announcement/18190287/ |title=Greg Fishel announcement :: WRAL.com |author=WRAL |accessdate=13 February 2019}}</ref> In late 2019, Fishel joined Priogen Energy, an Amsterdam-based energy company, as an atmospheric scientist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Huffman |first1=Dane |title=WRAL's Fishel lands new job |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2020/02/07/tbj-plus-wrals-fishel-lands-new-job-epic-raleigh.html |accessdate=4 April 2020 |work=Triangle Business Journal |date=7 February 2020}}</ref>
Through most of his career, Fishel held a view on climate change in opposition to the climate consensus. However, he began researching the matter in 2005, and by 2015 he participated in a climate documentary. In his last five years with WRAL, Fishel would make strong anti-denialist statements on climate change.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fishel |first1=Greg |title=How a North Carolina meteorologist abandoned his climate change skepticism |url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/climate-change-skeptic-meteorologist.php |accessdate=4 April 2020 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=13 November 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bennett |first1=Abbie |title='Put up or shut up': WRAL's Greg Fishel goes off on climate change deniers |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/weather/article152016942.html |accessdate=4 April 2020 |work=The News & Observer |date=23 May 2017}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== * American Meteorological Society Fellow<ref>{{cite web|title=Fishel receives national honor|url=http://www.wral.com/fishel-receives-national-honor/12908954/|publisher=WRAL}}</ref>
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