John Coleman founded The Weather Channel Network in 1982. He told the audience of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 that he is highly skeptical of global warming and blasted the TWC for perpetuating the myth.
The Weather Channel has played a major role in global warming alarmism.
Founder John Coleman blasted the network for what he called fraudulent reporting, and indicated that the Weather Channel has lost it's way.
“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”
In December of 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen
argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society, which Coleman feels is strong evidence of TWC's perpetuating the "fraud" of global warming on the public through the media.
He also advocates suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.
“ have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore. That lawsuit would get so much publicity, so much media attention. And as the experts went to the media stand to testify, I feel like that could become the vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”
Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
told the audience that science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away. He also said the courts were a good avenue to show the science.
“I think the question you’re asking is who’s behind the scare,” Monckton said. “There’s been a long history of scares recently and scientific frauds of various kinds. It began, I suppose, with the eugenics movement in the 1930s which led to Hitler. It followed on with the lyceum movement in Russia under Stalin. It went on with the great leap back under Chairman Mao which led again to tens of millions of deaths. The point you’re making is that this kills people if you get the science wrong.”
Monckton went on to state that he held the media responsible for the one-sided portrayal of the climate change issue and stated that global warming alarmism can be defeated when refuted by science.
“You sell far more papers by saying, ‘Gee, wow – World to End; Shock; Sensation’ than you do by saying ‘Climate Continues to [be] Changeable,’ which is the truth,” Monckton said. “So where the media is largely closed on this, but the courts are not and that is the place where if you go and make a reasoned argument based on the science, you can always beat the other side, because their science – and we heard it over and over again today – is simply incorrect.”
The idea of the media being “closed” on the subject was supported in the Business & Media Institute’s latest study,
“Global Warming Censored,” which found the U.S. network news leaving out skeptics of climate alarmism 80 percent of the time. Within the mainstream media reports, scientists made up only 15 percent of the global warming proponents shown. The remaining 85 percent included politicians, celebrities, other journalists and even ordinary men and women. There were more unidentified interview subjects used to support climate change hype than actual scientists. According to the report skeptical voices were suppressed by the networks and outnumbered by nearly a 7-to-1 ratio those promoting fear of climate change or being used by the network for the same purpose. CBS had one of the worse records, with nearly 38 proponents to one skeptic.
Monckton went on to tell the audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away.
“They’ve got the science wrong and it will gradually penetrate to the general public that they have got the science wrong and once the penny drops – that will be the end of this scare too,” Monckton added. “We’re not far away from it now.”
I have to agree with this. I remember the
"ice age scare" in the mid 70's. We were all told that the temperatures on earth were falling dramatically and we would soon be living on a frozen tundra.
