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On Sunday, the Weather Channels co-founder took his confounding message on the falsity of climate change to CNN, where he said he left Brian Stelter, the host of Reliable Sources, wondering what had hit him.
John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel in the 1980s before being forced out a year after it went to air, has splashed across headlines this past week for his climate denying antics. It started when Coleman who does not have a meteorology degree, let alone a climatology degree wrote an open letter to UCLAs Hammer Museum expressing his disapproval on a climate change presentation hosted there. In the letter he states, there is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future.
Coleman does not back up these claims, but in the ensuing week he has added significantly to them. In an email posted online, Coleman gave a synopsis of his appearance on Reliable Sources, which was filmed on Friday:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/02/3587561/climate-denying-weather-channel-co-founder-goes-on-cnn-is-clearly-wrong-on-all-points/
We cannot afford to ignore this problem ...
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)our descendants' lives a living hell.
spanone
(135,820 posts)Archae
(46,317 posts)This guy generates controversy, creating "drama."
That drives ratings, which translate into ad $$$.