Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

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By Noel Sheppard | November 7, 2007 - 17:58 ET

If the founder of The Weather Channel spoke out strongly against the manmade global warming myth, might media members notice?

We're going to find out the answer to that question soon, for John Coleman wrote an article published at ICECAP Wednesday that should certainly garner attention from press members -- assuming journalism hasn't been completely replaced by propagandist activism, that is.

Coleman marvelously began (emphasis added, h/t NB reader coffee250):

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It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.

[...]

I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.

In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.

Let's hope so, John; let's hope so.

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—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

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My new hero

I have a new hero.  May your tribe increase, Mr. Coleman.  It must gall him that TWC has sold out to this stupid fantasy, even devoting a weekly show to pushing Global Warming.

FYI, here's his bio from KUSI-TV in San Diego, where he holds his "retirement job". 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Bad Guys

It must gall him that TWC has sold out to this stupid fantasy, even devoting a weekly show to pushing Global Warming.

"The Weather Channel on cable. That's my baby", Coleman says. "The bad guys took it away from me, but they can't steal the fact that it was my idea and I started it and ran it for the first year. I put everything I had into making TWC the success it is."

Coleman was also the weatherman on ABC's Good Morning America for seven years.  It will be interesting to see if Mr. Coleman's former employer GMA/ABC pick up this story about Coleman's distancing himself from any supposed "climate crisis."  I'm betting they won't - The "bad guys" have taken over that operation as well.

John Coleman makes a mistake

Mr. Coleman makes a mistake in not considering the sun is in a state of fluctuation. While he is correct on the scam of global warming being exposed as a fraud, the sun in this period is destined to do what yellow dwarf stars do as our's is destined to do in literally scorching the earth.

There is a reason the Bible predicts in Revelation of Jesus the Christ that people are in "caves" and the sun is scorching people.
Now the Bible was written 2000 years ago in the last chapter approximately and yet it explains completely a yellow dwarf event which scientists see throughout the galaxy.

People will survive, but even Mr. Coleman has to take into all considerations and assist that America needs to implement a policy of taking global warming scam funds and using them as grants for homeowners to build and stock shelters........not just for the weather, but while we petered away 2 decades the Russians have been building huge underground cities for a nuclear war they are preparing for.

This building program would help the American economy immensely and spare allot of hardship. It is the prudent thing to do now that the scam is being defeated and we prepare for the next power grab of the globalists "using food shortage scam from bio fuels and water shortages".

 

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You make a very good point,

You make a very good point, Lame Cherry. I was reading an editorial by Joseph Farah on World Net Daily yesterday, and he made the point that if man made global warming was real, the Bible, especially the OT would have addressed it. Just about all of the prophecies in the OT have come to pass, but no mention is made of global warming.

As for me, 2nd Peter says the earth and the heavens will all burn up including the things that hold them together but it wont be from greenhouse gasses.

I think in our arrogance we have returned to the Tower of Babel, that we think we can turn back the weather to our liking.

I agree that GW is a scam, and when the Next Big Thing comes along funding will dry up and GW will be history.

Hey Boxer and rest of the

Hey Boxer and rest of the left loons in just Congress are you listening?

Inhofe is going to love this!

Thanks coffee and Noel...I am tickled pink...hehehee

Hmmmm...I wonder how Heidi Cullen is feeling about this all....

John Coleman is the best!

While every other newstation is rolling out "Storm Watch" because we may get a 10th of an inch, John is telling the real story. This is a true man of integrity! For real information concerning Climate Change please visit www.icecap.us. Almost a Joe Friday - just the facts.

May I ask what Coleman's

May I ask what Coleman's credentials are in terms of reading weather patterns and data?

boa... LOL! Leave it to

boa...

LOL!

Leave it to you...

You and Leon are on the same page today.

Precious....just precious.

I agree with you about the

I agree with you about the trollsters, boa and leon.  However, I will add that I would like to know (and will research it) as well, because the more credentials he has the more reputable his 'opinion' is and the more weight we can add to his comments.

I just don't know if I'm

I just don't know if I'm going to be in a rush to accept what he says when he was merely the founder of a weather channel. That doesn't mean he's an expert on the subject. 

If it turns out he is, then great. I'm just asking. 

And Al Gore's

And Al Gore's credentials? 

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

And Al Gore's credentials?

...the one who coined the following:

Yeah, logic, reason, facts play less of a role now in the way we make decisions in America. – Al Gore

v

...lets don't forget his

...lets don't forget his repeating the words anywhere and everywhere...planetary emergency...planetary emergency....

It always reminds me of Barney on The Andy Griffith Show saying Citizens Arrest... Citizens Arrest....

well he's got his legacy

well he's got his legacy now

  • inventor of the internet
  • oscar
  • nobel "peace" prize
  • veep
  • and "I came thiiiiiiiis close to being prez

...now if he can only live with himself for all the wasted money spent and to be spent on "solving" GW...and living a hypocrital lifestyle...

v

 and "I came thiiiiiiiis

 and "I came thiiiiiiiis close to being prez

If only he could have carried his home state.  Oh well.

Leon says "By the way, I'm not afraid of fat people, I'm repulsed"

Truth Monger Says - "Both are religions [Christianity & Islam], yes - with the same percentage of terrorists."

DC

Hey, that's not fair!  Gore carried DC!

:-)

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Don't forget that Emmy for starting up "the most successful new

network ever launched"

Er, Al, that would be the Fox News Network.....
Has anyone ever seen his new network?  Comcast certainly doesn't carry it, nor did Adelphia before we switched recently.  
Didn't he used to have a nickname "Lyin' Al?"  Wasn't that the reason he couldn't carry Tennessee [or Arkansas] in the 2000 election?
And didn't he say about Anthropogenic Global Warming that "The science is settled."  In NINETEEN NINETY-TWO?  Just after he invented the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY?  [Lefties like Alex Trebek on Jeopardy keep saying he never claimed to have invented the "internet," using the verbal quibble that those words never escaped his mouth.  Forgetting in their dishonesty that "INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY" was the quaint old-fashioned way of saying "internet" back then.]
Where's all them hurricanes, Al?  I live in S. Florida and I'm supposed to be underwater according to your movie.

My favorite???

The planet has a fever!

And the only cure is more

And the only cure is more cowbell!

}}---> Barney Fife

I'm thinking that was Gomer hollering "citizens arrest"

Astonishing proof

Cool.. You got me roaring

Cool..

You got me roaring with laughter here...posts were good too.

boa... All I meant and

boa...

All I meant and you know it is you always take the contrary view instead of googling it yourself for your own answers.

John Coleman

As a point of reference John Coleman was a freshman in college when he started his career as an on-air meteorologist (scientist who studies the atmosphere to see how it affects the environment and to predict the weather and climate trend) - Algore was 5 years old at the time.  Mr. Coleman has worked as a respected meteorologist ever since including a seven year stint on Good Morning America and is currently the senior meteorologist at KSUI in San Diego.

He was a meteorologist, Bal,

He was a meteorologist, Bal, which is more than can be said for Al Gore.

He's a meteorologist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coleman_(meteorologist)

Boy, that was a tough bit of research. Took me all of 5 seconds.

Are you lazy Balboa, or just willfully contrarian?

Lazy. I figured someone else

Lazy. I figured someone else might have the answer at their fingertips.  

Buzzzzztt!!!

Wrong again. But it was a trick question. The correct answer is you are both: lazy and contrarian. And that's no way to go through life son.

Beats bitter and angry.

Beats bitter and angry.

Like...

The 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections? As we all know, your side won both.

I'm neither bitter nor angry

I'm neither bitter nor angry about either one.

Actually, "Fat, drunk, and

Actually, "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son". 

Leon says "By the way, I'm not afraid of fat people, I'm repulsed"

Truth Monger Says - "Both are religions [Christianity & Islam], yes - with the same percentage of terrorists."

bigtimer


Hmmmm...I wonder how Heidi Cullen is feeling about this all....

Probably looking for some way to have him arrested.

Just when you think the whole world has gone mad...a sane voice emerges and dares finger Arnold the Gov and teachers---Coleman should speak up more often.

Thanks for highlighting this, Noel.   

Sept.... Love your

Sept....

Love your answer...lol!

balboa

May I ask what Coleman's credentials are in terms of reading weather patterns and data?

You can ask but no one has to say, including Coleman. He is stating an opinion and has a right to do so as you or anyone else does. One can think it crap or semi-crap or not crap. It's up to you.

How 'bout googling the man and getting your own answers?

We know Al Gore, Michael

We know Al Gore, Michael Mann and Hanson haven't been too good at reading weather patterns. 

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Neither is Leonardo Retardo

Neither is Leonardo Retardo DiCaprio, but he's a celeb and just knows everything.

The man must have read my

The man must have read my mind. 

I'd also add. Those who claim the science is settled. And that those who disagree should be silenced, aren't scientist.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

It's the sun, the sun will

It's the sun, the sun will have the last laugh. It is working it out right now, feel the chill?

As to credentials, what is the Goracle's science background, I must have missed that part ... Didn't the English court have something to say about the Goracle's fable?

10k.... LOL...Great post,

10k....

LOL...Great post, I loved it.

Senator Inhofe should write a book titled 'Goracle's Fables'....someone should anyway.

Cooling

I'm currently experiancing global cooling. In about 10 hours global warming will kick back in. Perhaps I should go start a fire to warm my neighborhood up?? I agree its the sun stupid! Without it were nothing more then a cold frozen rock that no amount of CO2 will help....in fact the CO2 will add to the pretty white landscape... CO2snowboarding anyone? Perfect powder conditions..

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat"         R. Reagan

OT

...but all your favorites are here.

My wife and I spent a lot

My wife and I spent a lot of years living in San Diego while I as on active duty in the Navy. During our time there, we came to love watching John Coleman on KUSI Channel 9. He is so full of energy, and he has a great resume to boot.

 

If you are ever in San Diego on a Friday night, make sure you watch the KUSI news at 9pm or 10pm.

You ask about Algore's

10ksnooker, you ask about Algore's scientific credentials? Why, it is a grade of D in natural sciences when he was in college. When he decided he didn't have a prayer in a scientific field, he entered Divinity School, from which he also flunked out. Our former VP is an intellectual giant, a legend in his own mind. He is also proof that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, otherwise, he'd have been President.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

Noel

assuming journalism hasn't been completely replaced by propagandist activism

you assume much there Felix  :^)

GoHunter08

B

B,

An Odd Couple fan. I love it.

What a great show that was. One of my favorites. When's the last time you saw the original movie version with Matthau and Lemmon? Really amazing stuff.

I especially love the line when Oscar says something like:

Stop leaving me stupid notes in the morning. Today you left me one saying, "Oscar -- Don't forget to pick up your dry cleaning -- FU." It took me twenty minutes to figure out that FU meant Felix Unger!

:-)

ns

John is the coolest...

I've been watching John here in San Diego for the last ten years or so and he is the best. Other "weathermen" pale in comparison. John is a bonafide meteoroligist and is one of the most adept at using his "super computer" to make his forecasts (which are amazingly accurate!). The station he is on (KUSI- emphasis is John's! you'd have to hear him say it...) is an independent (no more networks for John!) and he pretty much has the run of the place. He is the one everyone in San Diego was watching during the fires here a couple weeks ago and he was dead on about when the Santa Ana winds would end. I value his forecasts more than any other here in San Diego and now I have even more reason to call him my favorite!

Hi rx... As an aside real

Hi rx...

As an aside real quick since you mentioned the fires, my cousin in Running Springs just found out his home made it about four days ago...just still smoke filled smell...thank goodness.

BT, Glad to hear they didn't lose their house...

At the beginning of the year I almost bought property up on Palomar Mountain and it got completely torched... 40 acres and not a tree left untouched. The mountain is gonna take some years to recover. After the last big fire in 1979 about the only trees to survive were the oaks. It was a strange sight...acres and acres and not one pine tree.

Yes, it's much better for

Yes, it's much better for his home to smell like smoke than to have been converted into smoke.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

Thanks guys....

Thanks guys....

bigtimer


It always reminds me of Barney on The Andy Griffith Show saying Citizens Arrest... Citizens Arrest....

lol! That's a good one. 

balboa

Beats bitter and angry.

Feel better now? Next time just cut to the chase and let 'er rip! Give us all ya' got.

}}---> Gore's response

Rumor has it Al Gore is writing up a hasty response to this.

His new blockbuster IPECAC should come convulsing off the shelves any day now

ANother South Sea Bubble

The Global Warming nonsense is in the same league as the South Sea Bubble and Dutch Tulip Mania. (see the marvellous book written in the 1850s "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds")

In years to come as the earth goes through the periodic cooling phase books will be written  about this strange phenomenon - but until then we have to put up with the hypcritical Gore slug. It is unfortunate.

 

algoa

Wow, I haven't seen that (Dutch Tulip Mania) in eons.  I think I did a paper on it in college.

But it's the same thing as AGW....lemmings over the cliff. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Random Walk

Another great place to read up on the South Sea Bubble and the Dutch Tulips, among other bubbles (save the dotcom bubble) is Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. 

Among other things, that book has my tagline.  :-) 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Hope lil Heidi has her resume updated

"The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe" Obviously ms cullen never talks to the boss..She will not be missed. 

 

Difference of opinion is what makes a horse race.

The Scientific  Method vrs

The Scientific  Method vrs the Actual Method. I think I see warmer magic here.

Also here. Going to here. Then.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

global warming content for further research

Past Google search: antartic, greenland. glacier core drillings, CO2

Found in search e-mail correspondence between three ice core scientists, russian, greenland, and antartic. Went on for many pages, with interactive discussion of isotopes, gasses, but ended up with agreement on"anomolies". That is, the findings of CO2 above and below the "norm". It was agreed to "DELETE THE ANOMOLIES".    Thus, the  accepted scientific data-graph shows continual rising in the CO2 levels over time.  Someone should get the original data.

Past google search: Polar volcanic activity global warming:

1: Volcano under ross ice shelf. German team mapping, causing ice shelf melt

 2: rise in volcanic activity in polar north region.

Latest google search:Polar volcanic activity global warming: Several "studies" condensed finding is:

Human activity causing warming causing ice to melt causing release of pressure on land causing volcanic activity.

These are my findings.

Read Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman or, even better,

Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written in the 19th century.  Read Malthus about how we will all starve to death by the year 1900.

Al Gore is just the latest fraud, impostor, hoaxer in a long line of snake-oil salesmen and intellectual quacks.  There's a reason he couldn't get into law school at Harvard despite the fact that his daddy was a US Senator!
Just goes to show what it takes to win an Emmy, an Oscar and aNobel Peace Prize.  Go with the flow and sell your soul to the cabal that wants to destroy western industrial civilization.  It'll do wonders for one's career if one is a complete hypocrite with no moral fiber or brainpower.

They will still win

It's true, in 10-20 years they will see that global warming is really not an issue. BUT, the scam artists will claim that because of their efforts, warming has been REVERSED, and therefor we must continue with their ridiculous policies because it's working.

ICECAP and John Coleman are a puzzle

If they so disagree with the climate change science, then why don`t they take it up with their own American Metreological Society first - are they calling all of their colleagues who disagree with them "dastardly" or "environmental whacko" types? The AMS Council in 2003 approved a long statement that included the following:
http://www.ametsoc.o...

[T]here is convincing evidence that since the industrial revolution, human activities, resulting in increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents in the atmosphere, have become a major agent of climate change.

During the industrial period, the atmospheric abundance of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons (e.g., chlorofluorocarbons), and tropospheric ozone have increased as a direct result of human activity. The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has come largely from fossil fuel combustion and land clearing. Methane is produced in anoxic environments in wetlands, agriculture, and landfills, and is also inadvertently released to the atmosphere during energy exploration and delivery. Nitrous oxide is formed by microbial reactions in soils and waters, including those acting on the increasing amounts of nitrogen contained in fertilizers. The major sources of chlorofluorocarbons are refrigerants, industrial uses, and aerosol propellants. Tropospheric ozone is formed by photochemical reactions involving emissions of methane and pollutants and is the third most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane. However, the relative effect of carbon dioxide dominates all other anthropogenic increases of greenhouse gases since the industrial revolution. An overwhelming majority of scientists agree on the following facts relating to the global warming issue.

- The theory of how greenhouse gases directly interact with atmospheric radiation is not controversial. If no other factors counter their influence, increases in their concentration will lead to global warming.
- A steady rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases began over 200 years ago and is continuing. Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, has increased from pre-industrial concentrations of 280 ppmv (parts per million by volume) to over 367 ppmv in 2000, an increase of more than 30%; methane has increased from 0.7 to about 1.8 ppmv, an increase of more than 150%; nitrous oxide has increased from 0.27 to over 0.31 ppmv, an increase of 16%. Tropospheric ozone is estimated to have increased by 35% since the industrial revolution.
- At current rates and modes of energy use, doubling of carbon dioxide relative to preindustrial levels is likely to occur by the mid- or late twenty-first century.
- If we were to proceed on our present course until the current global inventory of known oil and coal deposits are exhausted, carbon dioxide concentrations could reach 4-6 times those of preindustrial levels.
- Because carbon dioxide is not destroyed chemically in the atmosphere, centuries and longer will be required before the added carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere to the deep ocean and geologic reservoirs.

Informed policy decisions of government and industry demand unbiased assessments of scientific results by the scientific community. The nature of science is such that there is rarely total agreement among scientists. ...

Because human activities are contributing to and accelerating climate change, we have a collective responsibility to develop and undertake carefully considered response actions. The fundamental challenge is to manage the risk represented by climate change in the larger context of overall societal issues and environmental stresses.

Besides taking it up with the AMS, and all of the scientists from the US and elsewhere who contribute to the IPCC, it`s not clear what it is that Coleman is saying - that climate change is a "scam" by a huge array of wacko or evil scientists, their friends in government, eEnvironmental extremists, notable politicians, movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists who have created a wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda?

If so, where can we find any documents outlining the scam? There are plenty of Republicans (didn`t Bush`s Dad start all this?), leading corporations, evangelicals etc in on this - so there`s got to be something somewhere spelling out the goals, benefits and marching orders, right? A scam this big ought to be pretty leaky.

I am especially curious as to what the "radical agenda" of all these diverse parties is.

Next, how did these scammers manage to convince almost all of our other allies to go along? Twist their arms, buy them off? Corrupt all of their scientists with fake research jobs from our budget?

And, finally, how did they manage to turn Pres. Bush and his science adviser?

Pres. George Bush: "Our guiding principle is clear. We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people."