cc: schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu
date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:45:30 -0600
from: Michael Schlesinger <schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu>
subject: Re: FYI: Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest   Scam
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Phil:

   I agree that Mr. Coleman is both ignorant and arrogant.

   This is a perfect example of a fellow with an undergraduate meteorology degree who probably
   never had a single course on climate and understands not the simple physics of greenhouse
   gases, first expressed in 1827 by Fourier.

   Yes, Heidi Cullen works for this fellow.  She must truly be upset by his pronouncement.

   When she interviewed me a few years ago for her climate segment, she informed me that the
   'meteorologists' at the Weather Channel had a view of global warming that was pretty much
   that expressed by Mr. Coleman.  Now I see why that was so.

   Perhaps I should offer to give my Global Warming lecture at the Weather Channel and engage
   with Mr. Coleman thereon.

   Michael

      Mike,
        This guy is the Whacko....
      In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.
      This could be paraphrased
      In a decade or two, it will be patently obvious to everyone on the planet
      that the climate is warming..
      Unfortunately, it will be virtually impossible (then) to do anything about it.
      As you know the rest of world (even more so than some good people in the US)
      also believe that warming is happening and we're responsible.
      Doesn't Heidi Cullen work for this guy?  I've just voted for her on the AMS Council
      Ballot. Voted for Tom Karl as well!
      Great iceberg picture on that 'cure' story - the cure that isn't a cure...
      Cheers
      Phil

     At 16:57 08/11/2007, you wrote:

      http://newsbusters.org/node/16955/print
     Published on NewsBusters.org ( http://newsbusters.org )
     Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History'
     By Noel Sheppard
     Created 2007-11-07 17:58
     If the founder of The Weather Channel spoke out strongly against the manmade global
     warming myth, might media members notice?

     We're going to find out the answer to that question soon, for John Coleman wrote an
     article [1] published at ICECAP Wednesday that should certainly garner attention from
     press members -- assuming journalism hasn't been completely replaced by propagandist
     activism, that is.

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     Coleman marvelously began (emphasis added, h/t NB reader coffee250):
     It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.
     Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political
     motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid
     global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the
     circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted,
     bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants
     their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.
     Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie,
     media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific"
     scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming
     unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has
     been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic
     Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well
     informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at
     ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes
     documentary segment.
     [...]
     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. There is no run away climate
     change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.
     I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and
     rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
     In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.
     Let's hope so, John; let's hope so.
     Related articles:
     Harvard Paper Calls Al Gore a Hypocrite [1]
     Renowned Environmentalist Calls Biofuels [1]'Crime Against Humanity' [1]

     John Stossel: 'Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet' [1]
     UN Climate Panel to Discuss Global Warming at Tropical Resort [1]
     Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Watch [1]
     Vote for Stephen McIntyre's Climate Audit as Best Science Blog [1]

     Source URL:
      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-wa
     rming-greatest-scam-history
     Links:
     [1]  http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/

     Prof. Phil Jones
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     School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
     University of East Anglia
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