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Creator of the Weather Channel Debunks Global Warming with a Little Common Sense
Townhall.com ^ | November 13, 2014 | Thomas Miller

Posted on 11/13/2014 10:49:29 AM PST by Kaslin

This may surprise you, especially since we’ve been conditioned otherwise, but we had legendary broadcaster, weatherman and the creator of The Weather Channel, John Coleman on Powering America Radio yesterday. John was part of an all-star weather team at Chicago’s WLS-TV for over a decade, was the first weatherman on Good Morning America, and from there got the idea that weather could be 24/7/365 on cable television. He wrote the business plan, got the funding and launched it in the early 1980s. He only was with the network a short time, before moving to sunny San Diego, where he just retired at 80. Life is good if you’re John Coleman.

Put your common sense hat on for a minute and consider a few of John’s points with me. CO2, which is the ogre of the environmentalist movement, comprises 0.039% of our atmosphere. Nitrogen makes up 78%, oxygen 20.95%. There are few other trace gasses, methane is one, which comprise less than one-half of one-percent. And it’s generally regarded that most of what comprises that tiny amount is from naturally occurring means. From the human perspective, your automobile and mine contribute by far most of what CO2 increase there has been. And with all that, it’s still miniscule. John debunks the idea that this 0.039% compound in our atmosphere is altering the entire legacy of the planet. As an observer of nature professionally himself for over 60 years, John doesn’t buy it. He noted on the show that 63% of the nation’s farmers don’t buy it either, while about 60% of the scientific community does. John said farmers are out making their living in nature, while those scientists are living off government grants, generously handed out to try to prove global warming really exists. Who should understand it better?

As I suggested, put on your common sense hat for a minute.

Environmentalism is a $30 billion a year industry according to Mr. Coleman. Rather than do an about-face and admit they’re wrong, those advocating the environmental boogieman don’t want to risk their cushy lifestyles that many have come to enjoy by promoting bad science.

I’m all for social and environmental responsibility. I’d love to see a clean planet. Clean air, rivers, streams and land. But our society has advanced based on fossil fuels, and I’m not willing to give that up either. Until a viable replacement arrives, we’ll still be Powering America on about 70-percent oil, natural gas and coal. And that’s a scientific fact.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; johncoleman

1 posted on 11/13/2014 10:49:29 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Global Warming Myth was created to control the STUPID


2 posted on 11/13/2014 10:53:10 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Kaslin

BUMP


3 posted on 11/13/2014 10:53:29 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Kaslin

TWC has become unwatchable...


4 posted on 11/13/2014 10:58:09 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Kaslin

ping


5 posted on 11/13/2014 11:01:28 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Thankfully Directv now has WEATHER NATION which reports WEATHER, not documentaries.


6 posted on 11/13/2014 11:02:15 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ISLAM, the religion of the criminally insane.)
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To: molson209

Stupid = Democrats

Pray America wakes up


7 posted on 11/13/2014 11:03:46 AM PST by bray (Palin/Perry)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
TWC has become unwatchable...
And not just because of the obvious Lefty bias.
There is so much info being shotgunned at the viewer, it's like a three ring circus had a collision with a Chinese fire drill.
8 posted on 11/13/2014 11:06:04 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Kaslin

Left out the most important greenhouse gas; water vapor.

Last I heard only 7% of scientists agree there is man-made global warming. These are the ones getting grants to look for proof of it.


9 posted on 11/13/2014 11:09:09 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kaslin

I miss TWC’s weather babes of the ‘80s...


10 posted on 11/13/2014 11:10:37 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

WEATHER NATION be kewl...watch it on internet all the time


11 posted on 11/13/2014 11:11:09 AM PST by Regulator
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To: oh8eleven
it's like a three ring circus had a collision with a Chinese fire drill.

LOL!!!

12 posted on 11/13/2014 11:13:55 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

,,,speaking of Kardashian,,

Oh Look,,,a Squirrel!


13 posted on 11/13/2014 11:16:13 AM PST by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: Kaslin
In the environmental movement, there is a limitless supply of characters playing the Jonathan Gruber role. They just won't admit it and haven't been outed yet.
14 posted on 11/13/2014 11:23:10 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: Kaslin
I watched this movie Pompeii the other night, so-so movie. Got me thinking about all the volcanos that naturally vent gases into the atmosphere - far more than mankind produces. The planet deals with it just fine. Locally in north California, much news lately about Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta venting gas and hot steam. My wife retired from a utility company, and had to visit thermal springs (they generate electricity from them) as part of her job. She said that as you approach, you have to stifle your gag reflex because of the sulphur odor.

Gas is vented everywhere around the planet! Constantly. More than humans produce. Yet, it's still a mere fraction compared to nitrogen and oxygen. Now if we have a major volcanic eruption, it will affect weather - but the planet soon cleans it away. People are so gullible to believe global warming nonsense.

15 posted on 11/13/2014 11:32:40 AM PST by roadcat
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To: molson209

Global warming, global cooling, it’s out of control! Actually never in mankind’s control - see this and marvel at what nature does underneath and above us.

http://www.sott.net/article/269256-Volcanic-eruptions-rising-CO2-boiling-oceans-and-why-man-made-global-warming-is-not-even-wrong


16 posted on 11/13/2014 1:25:28 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Kaslin

he Earth has been getting warmer or colder for 4 billion years. The only constant in Earths environment is change. It will continue to change till it’s consumed by the Sun.

Man has been on earth .00075% of Earth’s age or 300,000 years.
Earth will continue to change after man is long gone.

The universe is dynamic. Suns supernova, galaxies collide, planets are formed and lost in black holes daily.

Man is merely a brief observer, not the cause.


17 posted on 11/13/2014 6:22:21 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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18 posted on 11/13/2014 8:32:33 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I turned it on a few weeks ago and it whatever it was showing wasn’t the damn weather, WTF?


19 posted on 11/14/2014 7:38:10 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: molson209
The myth can also be used to bankrupt our county by manipulative Chinese...
20 posted on 11/14/2014 7:39:14 AM PST by GOPJ (Gruber & MIT - all the class of boiler room lowlifes pushing worthless swamp land on innocents....)
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