Weather Channel Founder Blasts Gore Over Global Warming Campaign

FOXNews.com ^ | January 29, 2009

[ETL]

The founder of the Weather Channel is ridiculing Al Gore over his calls for action on global climate change, saying in a column that global warming is a "hoax" and "bad science."

John Coleman, now a weatherman at San Diego's KUSI, wrote on his station's Web site Wednesday that Gore refuses to acknowledge the faulty research on which the idea of global warming is based.

Coleman's lengthy scolding came as the former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and urged lawmakers to pass a bill that would put caps on heat-trapping gases and take the lead on a global climate treaty.

Coleman wrote that the Environmental Protection Agency is "on the verge of naming CO2 (carbon dioxide) as a pollutant, and that seemingly all of Washington is on board with such CO2 silliness."

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There is no evidence whatsoever that CO2 has ever caused warming on Earth, at least not when the concentrations were within 10-15 times of what they are today. Water vapor is, by far, the most important greenhouse gas in the Earth system. -etl

THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD

ABSTRACT:

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.

Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.

If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."

http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html

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The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red, CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation/ice-age periods. Look carefully at this historical relationship between temps and CO2 levels (the present is on the right hand side of the graph) and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does the data indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000-year period actually *followed* temperature increases -lagging behind by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these past glaciations. Yet Gore continually and dishonestly claims otherwise. Furthermore, the subsequent CO2 level increases due to dissolved CO2 being released from warming oceans, never did lead to additional warming, the so-called "run-away greenhouse effect" that Al Gore and his friends keep warning us about. In short, there is little if any evidence that CO2 had ever led to increased warming, at least not when the levels were within 10-15 times of what they are today. -etl

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"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago [Myr]. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present." [also see 180 million years ago, same thing happened]:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M

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So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?

Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds [clouds of course aren't gas, but high level ones do act to trap heat from escaping, while low-lying cumulus clouds tend to reflect sunlight and thereby help cool the planet -etl]. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.

In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).

The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

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From GreenLeft.org

VENEZUELA: Chavez calls for global offensive for socialism
August 31, 2005

excerpts...

"The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet."

"I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don't think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, 'tomorrow could be too late, let's do now what we need to do'."

"I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet."

--Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/640/640p16.htm
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Obama climate czar has socialist ties
Group sees 'global governance' as solution

Stephen Dinan, January 12, 2009

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.

lots more...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/

[Puppage]

John Coleman

You have to love this guy. I recall him saying that, because Gore wouldn't publicly debate GW, he'd slander Gore & make him take him to court so it would all have to come out in trial.

He slandered, and Gore did zippo.

[Kleebo151]

Is the weather channel founder a climatologist or a meteorologist?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The former owner of the Weather Channel is ashamed at what has happened to his great production. It has now become unwatchable. But I found a better alternative at the National Weather Service. I get a much more accurate and untampered forecast from the real thing. After all, the Weather Channel gets their info. there first, before they ruin it.

[ETL]

http://www.kusi.com/about/bios/weather/1838191.html

[colorado tanker]

The man makes an excellent point. If there really was a “positive feedback” aspect to elevated CO2 levels, at the first interglacial max, hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, temps would just have kept increasing and the next glacial period wouldn't have happened.

[12Gauge687]

As far as I know, he’s a meteorologist, as are many who work at The Weather Channel (including Goracle groupie, Dr. Heidi Cullen). He worked in Chicago for years and was partially responsible for making the weather segment fun to watch. He’s a down-to-earth guy with a great sense of humor.

I found it hilarious when TWC first started pushing their ‘Forecast Earth’ shows with Heidi Cullen. The promos tried to make her out to be some sort of sexy weather diva, when she was really just a skinny twit spouting off all the PC AGW crap.

Lord Monckton of the U.K. also challenged al Goracle to a debate but so far he hasn’t taken his lordship up on the offer.

[ETL]

Is the weather channel founder a climatologist or a meteorologist?

I think he's a meteorologist. But he seems to know enough about earth climate history to know that the CO2 greenhouse gas 'problem' is all hot air.

[henkster]

I am so pissed I can’t type straight today. I am so mad about “the sky is falling, give us power now” left-wing alarmism. I am more angry at the msm for carrying their water. I am even more angry at our elected officials carrying out these plans.

What makes me most angry is that any significant number of the American people are so STUPID that they fall for this.

Did I mention I was upset?

[ETL]

The man makes an excellent point.

You mean Glassman? Because I don't think Coleman went into these details in the main article I posted. Glassman wrote the piece on CO2 that I posted right after it.

[Free Descendant]

“John Coleman, now a weatherman at San Diego’s KUSI”

Hows that gonna work out for him over there?

[popdonnelly]

Has the EPA Administrator been confirmed yet? This needs to be a front-and-center issue. Naming a CO2 a pollutant gives the environmentalists the power to hold up ANY project that produces CO2.

[popdonnelly]

“Chavez calls for global offensive for socialism”

His DU and Kos acolytes are working hard at it.

[ETL]

As will be Obama’s new “Climate Czar”.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174392/posts?page=2#2

[CedarDave]

FR posts of Coleman’s article from earlier today:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174212/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174216/posts

(Two threads as they were posted almost simultaneously.)

[The Duke]

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page,...

What does it say about an organization when one must remove a person's name from the roles to improve their image?

[metmom]

OK, so no taxing the coal industry into oblivion then?

[Oldpuppymax]

Man made global warming is a scam, has been a scam and will continue to do tremendous damage to this nations economy. The radical leftists who promote this face are vehemently anti-business, anti-capitalist and are working to destroy the free enterprise system. This and the rank pursuit of power have driven this mob from the beginning.

[colorado tanker]

Yes, Glassman.