Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History

Liberty Matters News Service

November 2007

"It is the greatest scam in history. Global Warming; it is a SCAM." That is what John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel said in an article for the publication, ICECAP, recently.

"Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific date to create an illusion of rapid global warming [and were rewarded by their government pals with] huge research grants to keep the movement going." Coleman continued, "Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and 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."

Mr. Coleman said he had read dozens of scientific papers and talked with numerous scientists about the issue and his research led him to conclude; "There is no runaway climate change. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed," he continued, "by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming [Al Gore]."

Dr. William Gray, pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, was equally scornful of the Global Warming hysteria. The same day that Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize for his monumental work of science fiction, "An Inconvenient Truth," Dr. Gray told a crowd of meteorology students and professional meteorologists the global warming theory is "ridiculous." "We're brainwashing our children,"

Dr. Gray said. "They're going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

Dr. Gray poked holes in alarmists' claims that hurricanes are increasing because of the climate change, citing statistics showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949 during a period of cool temperatures and 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth was warmer. "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," he said.

Dr. Gray expressed disappointment that his fellow scientists have failed to speak against something they know is wrong. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out."

John Stossel, ABC's only conservative thinker, in a November 14 article; "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet," said although the media insist that the "science is in" and the "debate is over," it isn't. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may present a 'consensus view of scientists' but the 'consensus' is not without dissent.

Consensus is the stuff of politics, not science," says Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute.

John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, notes that no amount of government tinkering will make any difference in the climate. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Christy said; "Suppose you are very serious about making a dent in carbon emissions and could replace about 10 percent of the world's energy sources with non-CO2-emitting nuclear power by 2020 - roughly equivalent to halving U.S. emissions. Based on IPCC-like projections, the required 1,000 new nuclear power plants would slow the warming by about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit per century. It's a dent."

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Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History

By Noel Sheppard
November 7, 2007

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:

"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.