Articles Tagged "John Coleman"

This simple three word phrase is almost impossible to say because it changes everything. It is easiest for a child to say it. After all a child isn't expected to right about things. But the higher you climb through life the more difficult it comes to admit being wrong. It would be devastating for a President of the United States to say, "I was wrong." And, it may be about as difficult for an established, respected scientist who does research at an institution funded by millions of tax dollars. That is why I don't expect any of the scientists caught by the Climategate leak, to admit "I was wrong" anytime soon.

Consider the case of Roger Revelle, the Grandfather of Global Warming. He didn't say "I was wrong" through all the years he was heading up the Scripps Oceanographic Institute or the Harvard Population Studies program. He waited until he was in a retirement job back as UCSD, a mere professor without any research or grant monies coming in, to admit he was wrong about CO2 being an important greenhouse gas. But to his credit, he did say it in his final years. I respect that he did clear the air before leaving the scene. I regret that Al Gore and IPCC and the media were no longer listening to him.

The media rarely has said, "We were wrong." I have worked in newsrooms for 56 years. I have never heard it. In fact, I cannot recall that I have ever heard "We were wrong." I have on several occasions heard, "We were miss-informed", "We were misled" and even "We were duped", On several occasions I have heard "We must correct this item". but even on these rare occasions there is great reluctance. It would take a monumental event to force the media to say "We were wrong."

“Where it gets completely wild is when you consider what kinds of things we can do to reduce carbon emissions,” Running said. “The technology doesn’t exist to do that now, without reducing our lifestyles to primitive levels.”

The Running in the above quote is University of Montana forestry professor Steve Running, who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is heading up a new University of Montana degree program on Climate Change Studies. I believe Running is correct in his conclusion. If releasing Carbon Dioxide, CO2, into the atmosphere in the exhaust from the burning of fossil fuels is driving an irreversible global climate change that will destroy our way of life, we have no viable solution available. The only answer would be to return the Tarzan and Jane in the jungle. That is why the debate about the effect of CO2 on climate is so vitally important.

I also know with absolute confidence that the effect on climate from the CO2 in the exhaust from burning fossil fuels is having only a tiny, insignificant impact on climate. Therefore, we do not have any valid reason to reduce our lifestyles to the primitive level, as he professor suggests we might have to.

John Coleman's Talk at the Sutherland Institute Earth Week Event April 22, 2009

There is no significant man-made global warming at this time. There has not been any in the past. There is no reason to fear any in the future.

I am certain of what I just said; as certain as an educated, informed person can be.

I have held professional level membership in the American Meteorological Society and been honored as the society's Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year. I have predicted the weather daily for 55 years. I read the professional American Meteorological Society publications. I have read and studied the documents of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I am qualified to make the scientific conclusions I have made. And, I am a graduate Journalist with many years of experience. So I adhere to the requirement that I avoid any biases and avoid promoting a personal agenda. I remain confident of the absolute conclusions I have reached.

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"Their models then projected a continuous rapid rise in global temperatures year after year. In the 1980s and 1990’s the models seemed on track as temperatures climbed. But in 1998 the warming stopped. By 2002 a rapid cooling had begun. That cooling continues today. The computer proof has failed. It has become clear the warming in the 80s and 90s was at the peak of a solar cycle and now that the sun has gone very quiet, cooling has gripped the planet. Yet the models continue to predict warming that is not happening."

Thank you to the Committee for the invitation to appear here today. And to any who listen to my remarks or read them later, thank you for your consideration of my testimony.

I come before this Subcommittee with no allusions or expectations. I am aware that for the majority of the Committee and most involved government officials my conclusions will run counter to your interests and agenda and will be ignored. None-the-less, I have made the effort to be here today because I feel what I have to contribute should at least be in the record.

Revelle was a powerful man, a noteworthy scientist and a significant force in San Diego in the 1950s. There is no doubt he is largely responsible for the respect given Scripps Institute of Oceanography and for locating the University of California at San Diego, UCSD, in La Jolla.

While serving as Director of Scripps, Revelle and one of his researchers wrote the first modern scientific paper that linked carbon dioxide released into the air from the burning of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect and the warming of temperatures. This triggered an avalanche of research that eventually became the impetus behind the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the entire global warming movement.

by: David Puner

If the debate over climate change is closed, why is John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, still trying to prove it’s all a scam?

Well over a quarter-million weathercasts—that’s the ballpark figure the 74-year-old founding father of the Weather Channel guesses he’s probably performed in his 55 years in the business. Today, as for the past 15 years, he’s chalked up another weathercast like it’s his job, because it is. This, he tells me, is the best time of his career.

Which seems odd, because in the past few years, he’s admittedly become mad as hell. Coleman is angry because he believes we have been brainwashed into thinking we’re ruining our own planet. He wants to let us off the hook, and give us some good news for a change, because, you see, John Coleman says that climate change is a scam..

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Dear All,

Being asked to comment on advocacy Journalism by a writer as high profile and esteemed as Andrew Revkin is a bit like having the Jar Genie ask for my one wish.

I have a degree in Journalism and have worked for 55 years in newsrooms, albeit, as a lowly TV Meteorologist. But, I remain serious about my profession, none the less.

Did advocacy Journalism first get out of hand during the civil rights movement or the Vietnam war? It seems to me it began to sweep the newspapers and TV in the 1960's and hasn't been arrested since. I have little expectation that in the difficult times reform will take hold, but I will here and now hope for it.

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?

Due to a decline in solar activity and other factors, the Earth is cooling, and has been since 1998. A peer-reviewed study published in April by Nature predicted the world will continue cooling at least through 2015. In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month of October.

Meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman notes that a significant natural warming trend peaked in 1998 with lots of sunspots and solar flares. Now the sun has gone quiet with fewer sunspots, and global temperatures have gone into decline. "Earth," he says, "has cooled for almost 10 straight years."