Founder of The Weather Channel Says Manmade Global Warming is a Hoax  Thursday, November 8th, 2007

John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, wrote an article yesterday for the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, in which he called the theory of man causing global warming a "scam."

"It is the greatest scam in history," he wrote.  "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 an allusion of rapid global warming.

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

I am further from being Right Wing that most anyone you'll meet, I think.  But I myself have read the research and struggled with whether or not manmade global warming is indeed a "hoax."  For a while, I flat out said it was.  Other scientists have attributed global warming to the natural variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun.  There are many, many theories out there.

But the way I see it now - the steps we've been taking today to "go green" and to reduce the amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere, can only do good, not harm.  As a child, I remember all of the talk in school about how we should try not to purchase aerosol cans for our hairspray (God knows that was an issue in the 80's!), because we should try and do all we can to stop the hole in the ozone layer from getting bigger.

That, plus being taught about recycling, not littering, and preserving plant life, gave my peers and I a feeling that we could make a real difference in the world.  It gave us something to work on, to be proud of, to be concerned about, in an intellectual way.

Even if the scientists and governments that have adapted the theory that atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations from man are the true cause of global warming - why would anyone try to refute it?  Look at all of the people that have made real efforts to change their energy consumption since this became such a widely-discussed issue.

What ever happened to "better safe than sorry?"

    

 

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