Friday, November 09, 2007

Weather Channel Founder Calls Global Warming A 'Scam'

When John Coleman founded The Weather Channel in the early 1980's, he probably never could have guessed that TWC would be promoting the theory of global warming in the 2000's. That's because Coleman doesn't believe in global warming, or so-called climate change. In a November 7 blog entry on icecap.us, Coleman makes it clear that he does not oppose environmentalism, but he says that global warming is a "non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam." "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," Coleman wrote. "The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril." Coleman believes that in time, the global warming theory will be proven to be a scam when none of the predicted catastrophic events, such as coastal flooding and super storms, actually materialize. Coleman also criticized CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic party, and even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling them "well informed, but very gullible." Coleman now works as a broadcast meteorologist at San Diego's KUSI-TV.