Let's see, a TV hack versus a NASA scientist, Hmm... I wonder who has
more credibility?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/08/coleman-weather/
Right Wing Trumpets Global Warming Denial Of Discredited ‘TV
Weatherman’
colemanjohn.gif Yesterday, John Coleman, a founder of The Weather
Channel, wrote an article for the International Climate and
Environmental Change Assessment Project, a right-wing climate change
skeptic site, claiming man-made global warming is just a “scam“:
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 allusion of rapid global warming.
As proof that the scientific consensus is a hoax, Coleman writes:
I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV
weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award
winning former Vice President of United States. … 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.
The conservative blogosphere is pushing Coleman’s junk science today.
Matt Drudge links to Newsbusters’ “marvelous” take on Coleman this
morning. Red State, Qando, Sister Toldjah, and the Free Republic also
join in by approvingly linking to Coleman’s piece.
The right wing should check Coleman’s credentials before touting his
“scientific” work. As Coleman admits, his “expertise” is in weather —
not climate change science. In fact, he “has been a TV weatherman
since he was a freshman in college in 1953.”
Coleman came up with the “idea” for a 24-hour channel devoted to
weather, but he ran the station for only one year. Since then, the
Weather Channel has prominently embraced the fight against global
warming:
“If The Weather Channel isn’t talking about climate change and
global warming, who is?” said Kaye Zusmann, the vice president for
program strategy and development for the network. “It’s our mandate.”
The Weather Channel is unlikely to hire its founder today. Heidi
Cullen, the channel’s climate change expert, wrote last year that the
American Meteorological Society should not give its “seal of approval”
to any meteorologist who “can’t speak to the fundamental science of
climate change.”
Although Coleman still refers to The Weather Channel as his “baby,” he
recognizes that he’s no longer welcome there: “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.”
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Yang
a.a.#28
"I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
-Fred Stone, 6/14/2006
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