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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:34 AM
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Discredited ‘TV Weatherman’
I see this guy on TV from time to time.
He is local (San Diego KUSI).
And he is LOCO!

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Right Wing Trumpets Global Warming Denial Of Discredited ‘TV Weatherman’



Yesterday, John Coleman, a founder of The Weather Channel, wrote an article for the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, a right-wing climate change skeptic site, claiming man-made global warming is just a “scam“:

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 allusion of rapid global warming.

As proof that the scientific consensus is a hoax, Coleman writes:

I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. … 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.

MORE: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/08/coleman-weather/

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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:37 AM
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1. "Some dastardly scientists". . (pic)
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:37 AM
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2. What a putz
He even looks like a putz.

Putz.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:39 AM
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3. "I have thought about it. I know I am correct" Now write me the damned check.
MKJ
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:50 AM
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9. He's thought about it?
Eureka...no one else has thought about it!

What an ass.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:40 AM
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4. The ex-WLS Chicago weatherman??
Always kind of enjoyed his forecasts as a kid. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid, John, on the retirement cruise to obscurity...
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:41 AM
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5. Come on! He's the guy who started The Weather Channel!
If anybody knows about climate, climate change, atmospheric physics, advanced computer modeling, heat sinks, and greenhouse gases, it's a really old fucker with a lot of money.

You people need to get a clue.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:48 AM
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8. The new FOX Weather Channel
Comment on ThinkProgress:

"can see it now: Jack Coleman & Rupert Murdoch combine forces to create…

FOX WEATHER CHANNEL

Where it’s always 76 degrees with only a 20% chance of precipitation…because they say it is. And they know they’re right."

:rofl:
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:41 AM
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6. so, because he's read dozens of papers and talked to some scientists
he knows more about it than the majority of the scientific community?
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:44 AM
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7. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
:evilgrin:
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:50 AM
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10. That's completely odd
because the Weather Channel, believes in global warming, they have all kinds of shows about it.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:58 AM
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11. No, what's odd is that the knuckledraggers are all over this article.
For them, it's a great moment for "See? Told ya so!". Accompanied, of course, by lots of screaming and throwing chunks of dung.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:31 AM
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14. Coleman founded TWC, but he is long gone...eom
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I_Will Donating Member (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:02 AM
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12. " to create in allusion " huh?!
This looks like freeper-spelling and syntax. It's hard to believe it's from an edited article.

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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 03:11 PM
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17. Good catch. Illusion would have fit better.
Allusion has a completely different meaning. Spell check isn't perfect. In cases such as this, only a literate human being will do.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:26 AM
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13. He's read dozens of papers
and talked to some scientists. Shit man, I've eaten dozens of doughnuts and talked to a couple of cops and I know all about crime control now.

This guy is even dumber than Faux news.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 11:48 AM
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15. BwaaaaHaaaa!
that is all
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 02:45 PM
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16. "knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman"
yup, got that right.
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