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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 04:33 PM Nov 2014

Cable News Ignores Dire New Report On Climate Change, Features Rant From Unhinged Climate Denier

On Sunday, the Weather Channel’s 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 UCLA’s 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 ...

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Cable News Ignores Dire New Report On Climate Change, Features Rant From Unhinged Climate Denier (Original Post) MindMover Nov 2014 OP
If nothing is done about manmade climate both it and overpopulation will conspire to make Louisiana1976 Nov 2014 #1
+100 Duppers Nov 2014 #4
the fact that the media gives time to such an idiot speaks volumes of our media. good god. spanone Nov 2014 #2
When our major news media is entertainment, this is not surprising at all. Archae Nov 2014 #3
Pray harder, y'all. I'm sure that'll do some good :~P blkmusclmachine Nov 2014 #5

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)
1. If nothing is done about manmade climate both it and overpopulation will conspire to make
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 04:50 PM
Nov 2014

our descendants' lives a living hell.

Archae

(46,317 posts)
3. When our major news media is entertainment, this is not surprising at all.
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 05:10 PM
Nov 2014

This guy generates controversy, creating "drama."

That drives ratings, which translate into ad $$$.

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