ORF weather expert Marcus Wadsak has received the Walther Rode Prize, presented in Vienna by Medienhaus Wien. The media house used the ceremony to honor him for the way he communicates climate issues to a broad audience on air. It also spoke out against the defamations aimed at him, which have grown as his weather segments deliver climate context more pointedly. Wadsak has become a polarizing presence in Austrian broadcasting, and Medienhaus Wien made no attempt to soften that, calling him openly a provocative figure. The laudatory speech carried the pointed title 'Nicht aufhalten lassen von Tempobolzern', a warning against letting pace-blockers slow you down. By celebrating rather than taming his style, the organizers turned the award into a clear statement of support. Reactions from his critics will hardly be warm.