You stole my thunder. My first thought was, "off to re-education camp with you!!" 
Posted on 10/24/2014 9:17:27 AM PDT by Signalman
John Coleman, the founder of Weather Channel, has written an open letter, in which he claims the theory of anthropogenic climate change is no longer scientifically credible. So far The Express, a major British newspaper, and the American news service WND, have provided favorable coverage of the letter. The Express article has also been linked to by the Drudge Report, giving it wide exposure. The full text of the letter is as follows: _______________________________________
Dear UCLA Hammer Forum officials,
There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant “greenhouse” gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years. William Happer, Ph.D., Princeton University, Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willie Soon, Ph.D., Harvard Smithsonian Observatory, John Christy, Ph.D., University of Alabama and 9,000 other Ph.D. scientists all agree with my opening two sentences.
Yet at your October 23 Hammer Forum on Climate Change you have scheduled as your only speakers two people who continue to present the failed science as though it is the final and complete story on global warming/climate change. This is major mistake.
I urge you to re-examine your plan. It is important to have those who attend know that there is no climate crisis. The ocean is not rising significantly. The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number. Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing). I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid.
I am the founder of The Weather Channel and a winner of the American Meteorological Society honor as Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year. I am not a wacko flat Earther. Nor am I a “paid shill” (as has been claimed) of the Koch Brothers. I am a serious Professional. I am strongly urging you to reconsider your plan.
I can be reached at 858-xxx-xxxx (redacted by Anthony) and will be pleased the discuss this matter with you and answer questions. I will be happy to provide links to all of the points I have made in this email. As a quick scientific reference you may wish to look at the website of the Non-governmental Panel on Climate Change. http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
My best regards, John Coleman
A copy of this email has been supplied to The LA Times, KCBS/KTLA and NBC4 Los Angeles
(h/t to Eric Worrall for the reminder. John sent me the text of the letter two days ago)
In The Express article they add:
Climate expert William Happer, from Princeton University, supported Mr Coleman’s claims.
He added: “No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production.
“The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.”
In 2010 a high-level inquiry by the InterAcademy Council found there was “little evidence” to support the IPCC’s claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had purposely emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof.
Good. But do you think the foaming-at-the-mouth libs and envirowackos will listen?
The chances are somewhere between Slim and None, and Slim just left town.
Whoa! Stephanie Abrams will have her boss deported to a North Korean labor camp for this heresy!!
Yeah, and the EPA chief is putting out the bullcrap that the majority of americans acknowledge that MMGW is a fact.
We didn’t elect the EPA or any of its indigenous morons. It’s time to take action outside of our worthless congress and permanently shut down the EPA and its unconstitutional making of laws by fiat that destroy our country.
You stole my thunder. My first thought was, "off to re-education camp with you!!"
MAN made global warming was NOT present when all previous ice ages ended with global warmings going back millions and billions of years.
To be ignored by the msm. Does not fit their agenda.
Remember what Ms. Abrams originally threatened? It was aimed at academics & scientists who dared question the Holy Writ of so-called global warming & she said such heretics should be interrogated & imprisoned.
Or like in the old USSR, they should be arrested, shot, & tried.
First hottie chick I ever knew to be such a Stalinist.
;^)
Global warming is a multibillion dollar industry, providing jobs for tens of thousands of “climate scientists” who would otherwise be unable to find gainful or meaningful employment. Politicians like Algore would have to find other means of fear mongering, hate mongering, and being gurus of leftist popology. Global warming will be with us until a better scam comes along.
Latest Weather Channel Headline 10/24/2014:
JOHN COLEMAN, THE FOUNDER OF WEATHER CHANNEL, SMELLS A RAT COMING FROM GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE!
What they read: There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future.
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Some of these vested interests have jumped with both feet into the quicksand of AGW and their survival now depends on its continuance. They can't go back.
Hannity had Joe Bastardi on last night talking about John Coleman’s letter, which Joe supports.
Algore is distraught!
Algore is distraught!
Thanks for the ping.
I am not entirely sure why the simple credential test is so difficult for science deniers to get. This man, while he has had a carrier in televised weather reporting, is not exactly... well, not even close to a serious scientist.
I have no reason to disparage his on-air talent, or even deny his abilities as a meteorologist or forecaster. His degree is in journalism and he has done very well in that field. Over the lifetime working as a journalists in the field of meteorology he is sure to have learned a great deal about the weather. That, however, has almost nothing to do with the science behind global warming and little to do with the impact - climate change.
Over and over I see complaints from the denial community that somehow real counter science is dismissed. I keep questioning why the difference between the actual work (and it is real work) of climate scientists is met with conjecture in the form of simple dental and consumed as equally credible. These simply are not the same thing.
TBBR
Since Oct 24, 2014
Get lost Troll.
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