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Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is 'Telling Us What to Think'
Business & Media Institute ^ | 3/3/2008 6:11:04 PM | By Jeff Poor

Posted on 03/03/2008 3:56:18 PM PST by Plumberman27

The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.

“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.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarmingfake; johncoleman; liberalmedia; weatherchannel
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It is about time some more pople went after Al Gore and his bullcrap. Where has al gore gone anyways?? HE seems to have dropped off the earth since i heard about him being investigated for racketeering???
1 posted on 03/03/2008 3:56:22 PM PST by Plumberman27
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To: xcamel

GWing!


2 posted on 03/03/2008 3:58:18 PM PST by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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To: Plumberman27; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Normandy; Fiddlstix; Defendingliberty; WL-law; ...
 


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The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet

3 posted on 03/03/2008 3:59:48 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: Plumberman27
John Coleman was the weatherman at Chicago’s ABC affiliate Channel 7 many, many years ago. He was a showman, dressing up as a Pilgrim around Thanksgiving, once standing on his head while doing the weather. He was also well liked by the viewers.

When he put together the Weather Channel, cable was so primative that his effort was considered sheer lunacy. He might have acted stupidly on camera, but he was (is) no dummy.

4 posted on 03/03/2008 4:04:53 PM PST by toddlintown (Michelle Obama; Teresa Heinz, minus the gin-soaked raisins.)
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To: Plumberman27

So who is at fault? Al Gore or his channel that broadcast the hoax?


5 posted on 03/03/2008 4:05:55 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: Plumberman27
Agreed. TWC started out as a great service, simply reporting current weather conditions and forecasts around the entire country.

The last few years have seen it turn into an out and out propoganda machine for the whacko environmentalists. I rarely watch it at all now, where I used to tune in all the time. I now simply use the internet and the Weather Service and the local weather channels in the places of interest that I am planning to travel to or where my family and friends live.

6 posted on 03/03/2008 4:06:04 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: edcoil

Worse yet, the government and people that are passing laws and regulations based on a hoax.


7 posted on 03/03/2008 4:06:33 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: Plumberman27
Pics and snow events like this don't help the global warming hoax.


8 posted on 03/03/2008 4:07:52 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Plumberman27
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9 posted on 03/03/2008 4:13:56 PM PST by StACase
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To: Plumberman27
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10 posted on 03/03/2008 4:14:24 PM PST by StACase
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To: toddlintown

“John Coleman was the weatherman at Chicago’s ABC affiliate Channel 7 many, many years ago”

He’s now the weatherman durring the week for Channel 9 in San Diego.


11 posted on 03/03/2008 4:15:48 PM PST by dalereed (both)
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To: xtinct

Ahhh, but now it’s ‘climate change.’ So they have all their bases covered.


12 posted on 03/03/2008 4:17:50 PM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Plumberman27
Here's something really cool that John's up to:

TWC founder & global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose 'the fraud of global warming'

13 posted on 03/03/2008 4:22:40 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (PaxBook.com: Official Internet source for publications of the Vatican Publishing House)
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To: dfwgator
1. The sun is responsible for climate changes like global warming or global cooling.

2. I believe that greenhouses gases and carbon are the RESULT of temperature increases or decreases caused by the sun... p.e.r.i.o.d.

So, Al Gore can put a stick in it.

14 posted on 03/03/2008 4:26:32 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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“He’s now the weatherman durring the week for Channel 9 in San Diego.”

Really? I thought he financially cleaned up when he sold The Weather Channel? He must be as old as dirt by now.


15 posted on 03/03/2008 4:30:20 PM PST by toddlintown (Michelle Obama; Teresa Heinz, minus the gin-soaked raisins.)
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To: Plumberman27

I haven’t watched the WC for some time now. Every time there is a storm coming, I look at the WC and they are rehashing some storm from the past.

It seems to me there is always interesting weather going on in our 50 statee, that to rehash old storm is silly.

Sometimes our area can be under tornado watches, and all I can find on the WC is a story on a tornado from 7 years ago or a hurricane story from 3 years ago.


16 posted on 03/03/2008 4:32:28 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: toddlintown

“He must be as old as dirt by now.”

Maybe that’s why he only works 5 days a week!

BTW, i’m as old as dirt myself!


17 posted on 03/03/2008 4:36:34 PM PST by dalereed (both)
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To: dalereed

“BTW, i’m as old as dirt myself!”

Married 34 years today (3-3-74), so I’m right behind you.


18 posted on 03/03/2008 4:39:12 PM PST by toddlintown (Michelle Obama; Teresa Heinz, minus the gin-soaked raisins.)
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To: dalereed

What’s up with Cantore? He looks like death warmed over lately. Is he ill or something?


19 posted on 03/03/2008 4:40:08 PM PST by Pure Country
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To: dalereed
He’s now the weatherman durring the week for Channel 9 in San Diego.

Is this him?


20 posted on 03/03/2008 4:43:44 PM PST by NittanyLion
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