John Coleman (Weather Channel Founder): COMMENTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING [Greatest Scam in History]

ICECAP ^ | November 07, 2007 | John Coleman

[Tolik]

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 back in the late 1990's to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental wacko 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 extremist, 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 ridicules 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 do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party.

However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you "believe in." It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a nonevent, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won't believe me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.

I suspect you might like to say to me, "John, look the research that supports the case for global warming was done by research scientists; people with PH D's in Meteorology. They are employed by major universities and important research institutions. Their work has been reviewed by other scientists with PH D's. They have to know a lot more about it than you do. Come on, John, get with it. The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it. How can you dissent from this crisis? You must be a bit nutty.

Allow me, please, to explain how I think this all came about. Our universities have become somewhat isolated from the rest of us. There is a culture and attitudes and values and pressures on campus that are very different. I know this group well. My father and my older brother were both PHD-University types. I was raised in the university culture. Any person who spends a decade at a university obtaining a PHD in Meteorology and become a research scientist, more likely than not, becomes a part of that single minded culture. They all look askance at the rest of us, certain of their superiority. They respect government and disrespect business, particularly big business. They are environmentalists above all else.

And, there is something else. These scientists know that if they do research and results are in no way alarming, their research will gather dust on the shelf and their research careers will languish. But if they do research that sounds alarms, they will become well known and respected and receive scholarly awards and, very importantly, more research dollars will come flooding their way.

So when these researchers did climate change studies in the late 90's they were eager to produce findings that would be important and be widely noticed and trigger more research funding. It was easy for them to manipulate the data to come up with the results they wanted to make headlines and at the same time drive their environmental agendas. Then their like minded PHD colleagues reviewed their work and hastened to endorse it without question.

There were a few who didn't fit the mold. They did ask questions and raised objections. They did research with contradictory results. The environmental elitists berated them brushed their studies aside.

I have learned since the Ice Age is coming scare in the 1970's to always be a skeptic about research. In the case of global warming, I didn't accept media accounts. Instead I read dozens of the scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct when I assure you there is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. It is all a scam, the result of bad science.

I am not alone in this assessment. There are hundreds of other meteorologists, many of them PH D's, who are as certain as I am that this global warming frenzy is based on bad science and is not valid.

I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.

In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped.

The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway.

I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend.

[Tolik]

This is a complete text of COMMENTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING by John Coleman http://icecap.us/images/uploads/JC_comments.doc

See John’s forecast blog on the KUSI site here.

The article above was published in Icecap with the following introduction:

Intro by Joe D’Aleo, Icecap, CCM
I was privileged to work with John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel in the year before it became a reality and then for the first of the 6 years I was fortunate to be the Director of Meteorology. No one worked harder than John to make The Weather Channel a reality and to make sure the staffing, the information and technology was the very best possible at that time.  John currently works with KUSI in San Diego. He posts regularly. I am very pleased to present his latest insightful post.

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http://www.kusi.com/home/11131801.html   John Coleman :

The Canadian Broadcasting Company's Cable News Network produced an excellent documentary on Global Warming. It is titled " Doomsday Called Off ".

Here are the Youtube URLs to watch it in five parts:

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD6VBLlWmCI

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZS2eIRkcR0

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbTJ6mhCqk

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2XALmrq3ro

Professor Bob Carter delivered a 35 minute lecture on global warming. If you are in an academic mood, it is excellent. It was recorded and posted in four parts on Youtube. Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN06JSi-SW8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCXDISLXTaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQQGFZHSno

 I am a member of ICECAP.US a website dedicated to refuting global warming.  www.icecap.us  Some people may want to see the research behind my dismissive attitude about Global Warming. If you want to wade through scientific jargon, here are some relevant websites.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/WegmanReport.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/NRCreport.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/NAS.M&M.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/McKitrick-hockeystick.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/MM03.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/Climate_L.pdf

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/MM-W05-background.pdf

 

[Tolik]

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[soozla]

John Coleman was our weatherman here in Chi-Town for many, many, many, many years................but NOBODY beats P.J. Hoff, the Chicago weatherman who drew cartoons of the weather as he gave you the forecast! Now THAT was a weatherman!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sulsa]

Thanks for posting. Marking this for later reading and forwarding to friends.

[Condor51]

*** but NOBODY beats P.J. Hoff, the Chicago weatherman who drew cartoons of the weather as he gave you the forecast! ***

PJ Hoff!?!?
You old fart. Get of the computer and take your Geritol.

I loved watching him too ;-)

[Wings-n-Wind]

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[goldstategop]

Climate change is a natural constant. Its occurred as long as life has existed on the planet. Its nothing Man can do much about except adapt to it. Global Warming is indeed a scam and will likely lead to wasting billions of dollars on marginal soluitions that won't change the weather significantly. But it will put a crimp in our economic growth and degrade our quality of life.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
• The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died
• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Global Warming and Solar Radiation
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics (PDF)
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• Global warming is not a crisis
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• An Unrepentant Prognosticator
• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• Global warming 'is good and is not our fault'
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Strong Evidence Points to Earth's Proximity to Sun as Ice Age Trigger
• THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• On the Phenomenon of Atmospheric Backradiation
• Does Man really affect Weather and Climate? Are the Interactions really understood?
• The Thermodynamic Atmosphere Effect - explained stepwise
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Rising Surface Temperatures Drive Back Winter Ice In Barents Sea, Researchers Findx
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:


This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

[Tolik]

I don’t ping to the Global Warming. xcamel and Tolerance Sucks Rocks do. And Reform Canada stands for xcamel (at least temporary). My own ping lists you can see on my page.

I hope it was helpful. Thanks.

[a real Sheila]

Ha
I recall as a kid, there was a local weather guy in Columbus, Ga. (I think) who would very dramatically draw all over a chalkboard weathermap. He was always VERY excited and dramatic with his weather report. I LOVED watching him.
“Sigh!”
I’m old too.

[Tolik]

Thanks for the links!!

[Sgt_Schultze]

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[BIGLOOK]

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[Tolik]

Oh. You are right. Thanks

[bereanway]

John Coleman nails it with this letter. His comments concerning the intelligentsia who inhabit the now rotted corpse of academia can be applied not only to global warming but on down the line to every other important issue these pin-heads address. Their bias and motives are becoming increasingly obvious to anyone who has even started to think through these issues.

Unfortunately, university research has been co-opted by the political process to advance certain political and societal goals. Alarmisim and politically correct results have become the avenue by which grants, funding and recognition are guaranteed.

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[trimom]

I am no scientist. Still, I fail to see how melting the polar caps could cause flooding.

Take a glass and pack it with ice. Now, fill it to the brim with water. Set it on the counter and wait a couple hours. No overflow. The displacement of water by the ice is equal to its volume. No flood.

Maybe that isn’t an accurate model. After all, I’m no scientist.

[Condor51]

*** “Sigh!” I’m old too. ****

We're not getting older - everyone else is just getting younger.

And to me the 1980's seems like it was last week. The 1960's & late 50's seems like last month. But I'll be darned if I can remember what I did this past Wednesday :-)

[threeleftsmakearight]

I’m no expert, either, but I think the enviros would say much of the ice is above the water line. So, when that melts, it causes more water.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States.

And to think this idiot came within a whisker of becoming President of the U.S., following the sleaziest crooks to inhabit any office. That shows how far a small minority has come in taking over this country.

Unfortunately, university research has been co-opted by the political process to advance certain political and societal goals. Alarmisim and politically correct results have become the avenue by which grants, funding and recognition are guaranteed

The Left is exceptionally skilled in getting us to fund their efforts to destroy us. The entertainment industry and the media provide them free propaganda and political support. The labor unions and the government/teachers unions are sources of lots of money confiscated from the citizens, as well as "volunteers" ordered to help in campaigns and demonstrations. Growing the government means increasing the pot of gold for Democrats.

Personal injury lawyers are another source, giving almost exclusively to the Democrats. Both the lawyers and the Democrats distort our values with their phony science and extortion and intimidation.

[Phantom Lord]

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[TheEaglehasLanded]

Maybe John and William Gray’s comments should be played to schoolkids that are being scared to death like that 18 yr old from Alaska that testified this week.

[trimom]

That’s ok. When I fill my water glass, the ice floats above the rim of my glass.

Like I said, I’m no scientist. I was in Alaska and I saw glaciers in retreat. I also saw glaciers in advance. I just think it’s all part of the natural cycle of the planet.

[b4its2late]

WOW. Lots of good stuff. Thanks!

[CedarDave]

I am a member of ICECAP.US a website dedicated to refuting global warming.

Thanks for the post and links. I watched Professor Carter's presentation last evening (links from Newsbusters) and it was both very professional and easy to listen to.

Regarding your membership in Icecap.us, it is incorrect to say that the organization is dedicated to refuting global warming. The purpose of that organization is to acknowledge global climate change (including global warming when appropriate) and to critically examine, using science, claims that changes in climate are due to man-made causes and if so the actual magnitude of such human impacts.

As for myself, I am not a global warming denier. I believe we are going through a natural change in climate and that man has little or nothing to do with its onset and even less of a chance to avoid whatever consequences such change brings. Using the words "refuting global warming" does a disservice to those who are diligently trying to bring common sense and science to this debate.

[CedarDave]

Climate change is a natural constant. Its occurred as long as life has existed on the planet. Its nothing Man can do much about except adapt to it. Global Warming is indeed a scam and will likely lead to wasting billions of dollars on marginal solutions that won't change the weather significantly. But it will put a crimp in our economic growth and degrade our quality of life.

Well said!

[YourAdHere]

Actually, I was just pinging myself so I’d have time to read the article later, but thanks for the info nonetheless.

[cogitator]

Continental ice caps (this includes the Greenland ice cap) are not floating in the ocean, mom. There are above sea level. Sea ice is not the problem here.

[Gritty]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And, there is something else. These scientists know that if they do research and results are in no way alarming, their research will gather dust on the shelf and their research careers will languish. But if they do research that sounds alarms, they will become well known and respected and receive scholarly awards and, very importantly, more research dollars will come flooding their way.

In other words, they are greedy, insecure, and self-indulgent. The desire for money and prestige trumps honor and honesty.

[Tolik]

Ooops, I am not John Coleman, he is a member of ICECAP, I am not. Sorry if the post was unclear, I put a link and John Coleman’s name in front of the links and comments. He deserves all the praise. I get the blame...

On the subject of the Global Warming denial: it just became a code word, so counter-propaganda uses the same code-word, often uncritically. It is better to state the opposition to the Global Warming hysteria, skies are falling panic and over-reaction.

[CedarDave]

I understand now; sorry about that.

However, I think he could better describe the purpose of the organization as:

...the organization is dedicated to refuting global warming hysteria.

[steelyourfaith]

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[samm1148]

Is he the same Coleman who was the weatherman on Good Morning America in the 70’s?

[samm1148]

Three billion cubic miles of gas, a mixture of gases at that, being simultaneously heated and cooled over hundreds of different ranges over both solid and liquid surfaces. That is the atmosphere up to the stratosphere. These clowns claim that they can predict the movement of that with certainty even though they can’t get the weather right for next week. Global warming doesn’t meet the statistical sniff test.

Real science has observable, verifiable results. Global warming does not. Also besides statistical analysis, I have doubts that given the above scenario that man has the gross power necessary to change anything in the atmosphere. I think that is probably that big yellow heater in the sky.

[Henchster]

Coleman makes some great points. Unfortunately, he makes them in such a poorly written article, it dilutes his credibility. There are enough grammatical and spelling errors in this short piece to give my college English professor a heart attack.

[Popman]

Darn, You mean we aren't all going to die. The right Rev. Al Gore told me so!!!

I ran up all my credit cards, bought a house way to big and finally smoked my Cohiba I was saving for when Castro kicks the bucket.

Guess, I screwed up.

[soozla]

Yes, I’m quite certain he is.............he was Channel 7’s (ABC Chicago) weatherman before he left for the Big Time, tho.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

I regret that Dr. Coleman’s language in this writing will further allow the “MSM” to continue to dismiss those of us who disagree with the extremists’ religion of AGW.

But his brute candor is needed to flush the language of mealy-mouthed bureaucrats

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There IS one further nail that is needed in this coffin lid: A graph of the earth's overall magnetic field vs time over the past 2000 years.

A graphic and theoretical link, and the driving agent of solar flares to the sun's magnetic fields to a shielding effect by a greater solar wind of the earth from cosmic rays is firmly noted. Fewer cosmic rays yields fewer impacts in the upper and mid-atmosphere, thus yielding fewer cloud particles and less cloud cover. Less cloud cover allows more sunlight to enter and thus more solar heating, while reflected energy up from the surface is still retained (re-reflected back towards earth) by the water vapor still present. The result is more heating and higher temperatures.

But that relationship of solar flares (actually the sun's magnetic field) is valid ONLY if the earth's magnetic field is assumed constant.

And it is NOT constant: the earth's magnetic field has decreased by about 16% since 1890-1895 time frame.

That is the missing relationship. That decrease in shielding as the earth's internal magnetic field decreases through the 20th century creates the "missing" .15 - .25 degree C rise in temperature NOT accounted for by the 11 year sunspot variation. Which knocks the last thread out of the AGW's toolkit of symptoms: the AGW extremists can still point to a "man-caused" rise in temperatures through the past 100 years, and they will continue to claim man is destroying the earth unless that temperature rise can be accounted for by other causes.

Or, if there can be shown to be a real cooling in the data, and that mankind (er, Bush) is preventing the next Ice Age.