Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud

[Newsjock]

Source: Fox News (sorry)

The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, hoping a legal debate will settle the global-warming debate once and for all.

John Coleman, who founded the cable network in 1982, suggests suing for fraud proponents of global warming, including Al Gore, and companies that sell carbon credits.

"Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question," Coleman said.

"Since we can't get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, where it was our scientists and their scientists, and all the legal proceedings with the discovery and all their documents from both sides and scientific testimony from both sides, we could finally get a good solid debate on the issue," Coleman said. "I'm confident that the advocates of 'no significant effect from carbon dioxide' would win the case."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html

[fascisthunter]

1. Give Me a Break! (nt)

[islandmkl]

2. sorry i don't have a link any longer, but check out John Coleman...

and some of his statements.....

kind of over on the right, you might say...

among other things, he hates "...what the Weather Channel has become"...

think Peter Coors hating beer...

[ORDagnabbit]

3. do a little search john coleman and you'll find he's another exxon wack job

Here is some Info on John Coleman

the Meteorologist who believes that the large portion of the scientific community who acknowledge the science behind Global Warming/Global Climate Change are a bunch of "wackos"


John Coleman admits that his expertise is in weather, and not in climate change science, and has been a tv weatheramn since he was a freshman in college in 1953.

There is a big difference between tv weather man and scientist, just as there is a difference between a tv nightly news host/pundit and a newsprint journalist.

Scientists actually study, collect data, and perform experiments, and create hypotheses and theories- Meteorologists (There are several sub categories) forecast the weather.

John Coleman was the "wacky weather guy" at channel 7 in Chicago in the "Happy Talk" news fad of the late 1960s and 1970s period- during the time when elderly women were the target audience.

John Coleman once did a stunt saying that if it snowed on a certain day he would do the weather standing on his head wearing only his underwear- It did, and he reniged

John Coleman was later fired and replaced with someone who can actually do real news.

He started the Weather Channel as a way to sell ad time and keep his tired comedy act going- but was later FIRED FROM THE WEATHER CHANNEL! THE CHANNEL HE HELPED START! Because the Weather Channel was sick of his antics.

Then John Coleman got hired by Chicago's Channel 5, because they thought it would boost ratings (it didn't) and they fired him after 6 months.

John Coleman is "famous" for popularizing the term "thorms" and "thowers" to represent thunderstorms and thundershowers.

[CreekDog]

4. He used to be on Good Morning America with David Hartman, and he did the weather

doooyuhhh!

[wtmusic]

17. Ex-Chicago weatherman

who is truly out of his mind.

[Taverner]

5. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?? Scopes trial for the modern generation

[nodehopper]

45. yeah except Scopes trial was initiated by pro-evolutionists

[Orsino]

47. He's only rambling drunkenly about the case he wishes he could afford to pursue...

...and the verdict he'd like to think would be reached, based on his nonexistent years of legal and scientific expertise.

There will never be such a case. He and Fox are conspiring to sow more doubt about global warming.

[niyad]

6. so why doesn't he, instead of just talking about it? what a cretin

[KaptBunnyPants]

7. Please let this man find a lawyer dumb enough to take this to court!

Please God, I don't ask for much...

[Gman]

8. Of course he would want the case heard in a Republican judge court

a judge that thinks evolution is evil, the Great Flood created the Grand Canyon and the sun and planets orbit the earth.

[underpants]

10. The irony here is that he gets all his content FROM..... the Federal Government

NOAA and the National Weather Service. The Weather Channel's content is all free to them-no contracts with producers or MLB/NFL/NBA contracts nope all free paid for by you and me.

Great business model huh?

[Gman]

13. And don't forget Santorrum was trying to privatize the national weather service

and guess who would have benefited the most??? This guy, of course.

[LibertyLover]

21. I remember that.

IIRC, Santorum wanted to defund and disband NOAA because people could get their weather from The Weather Channel. He backed down when it was explained to him in words of one syllable or less that The Weather Channel got all their information from (drum roll please) NOAA.

[Gman]

25. Actually it wasn't that reasonable and logical

it was that Santorrum didn't have the votes to do it. Otherwise it would have been a done deal.

[krkaufman]

30. Exactly! This guy gets his data from *us*, as in "we the people"...

... but he wanted to prevent us from having access to *our* data, forcing us to have to use his private service, instead.

[tsuki]

11. What's Judge Fuller of Ala doing now? Is he available, or is he too

busy counting his loot from all those Federal Contracts?

[melody]

9. John Coleman??? The man can't even pronounce "nuclear" correctly

Yup, he's the one to talk.

[xxqqqzme]

12. sounds like a worst person in the world nominee to me!

Hey numb-nuts what's the jurisdiction? what standing do you have to file?

[niyad]

14. did you send this to KO?

[Brotherjohn]

15. "Our scientists" vs. "their scientists"? This joker doesn't know what science IS!

And what a court of law says about scientific evidence is completely irrelevant. The scientific method is the process to decide whether theories are supported by evidence or not.

But then if "his scientists" were competent scientists, they'd know that.

Let me tell you, the jury ain't out on this one. The verdict (beyond a reasonable doubt) has LONG since been rendered.

[nbcouch]

28. He meant to say "our pseudo-scientists"

all of whom are currently on retainer for the Institute of Intelligent Design.

[Javaman]

16. Okay, fine. then counter sue this idiot to prove that he's right. nt

[MisterP]

18. *ring* "John E. Jones III, we need you!" n/t

[santamargarita]

19. OK. Let's sue all of the liars in the fascist media for fraud!

I'm sick of this war against the truth by these right-wing assholes!

[Bigleaf]

20. This clown is the local weather guy here at KUSI in San Diego. Here is his bio page at KUSI.

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

[MindPilot]

42. I thought that name sounded familiar!!

Not that anyone really ever watches KUUUUUSI.

[Megahurtz]

22. How is this Idiot

going to prove that Global Warming is a fraud?

Seriously what a dumbass. :dunce:

[BrklynLiberal]

23. How about a class-action suit against the Weather Channel because their forcasts are wrong so often

[Gothmog]

24. He has to find a lawyer stupid enough to take the case

I saw another variation of this story where he admitted that he had found a lawyer to take his case yet. A good lawyer would not take this silly case for fear of sanctions.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I don't get the Weather Channel anymore (canceled cable), but

don't his own on-air employees do regular features about global climate change?

[CatholicEdHead]

29. Yes they do

I did read a couple weeks ago on another story on this that the Founder is upset The Weather Channel does this. He was talking about the upcoming sale and infers that the Global Warming content will not be allowed by the new owners.

[fascisthunter]

35. Yes They Do.... (nt)

[better tomorrow]

27. forget Al Gore....what about these guys?

modifying the weather. Global warming, my butt....

http://www.eastlundscience.com/WEATHER.html

PS. It is downright COLD today in Florida....

[BlueIris]

31. He should sue. Because he would SO LOSE.

And how.

[Lorien]

32. I say he should go for it

and let the real scientist expose this pathetic waste of precious oxygen for what he is; just another shill for big GOP corporate interests.

[FVZA_Colonel]

33. Why isn't HE going for it?

Is he scared of losing, and doesn't want to risk the legal expenses and bad publicity that would result (so he wants to get some other fool to do it for him)?

[fascisthunter]

34. He Would Face a Countersuit

and knows he would lose.

[pitohui]

36. money talks and bullshit walks

did he actually file a lawsuit or is he just blowing -- dare i say it? -- "hot air"

any judge not on the take (and probably most that ARE on the take that don't want to become laughingstocks) would throw such a junk lawsuit out of court

[khaos]

37. go for it.. no such thing as too much debate

[daleo]

38. He's an idiot

Science isn't settled by judges or lawyers. This is medieval thinking. It's like the Vatican trying Galileo.

[MilesColtrane]

39. He probably owns some land in Oklahoma that he wants to eventually unload as ocean front property.

[struggle4progress]

40. "Y'all should sue. And I'll sit in my rocker at the retirement home!" What chickenshit!

[John Kerry VonErich]

41. Just remembered something

Remember, there was a judge in England who judged that there was no evidence global warming exists (despite the judge being a fountain of misinformation). We do need to be vigilant on this, because it could rule the same here as well.

[Hugin]

43. One of the reasons I no longer watch TWC...

Other reasons include the fact they seem oblivious to the idea weather follows the prevailing winds and that
it's pretty likely the sun rises most mornings.

There is a real unspoken 'flat earth' bias on that channel. :eyes:

[bronxiteforever]

44. How many 5 day forecasts did this genius get right-not many

He made his money PREDICTING the weather-In the words of Will Farrell in Elf "He sits on a throne of lies"

[Orsino]

46. Whistling in the dark

Next ask him about the Holocaust.

This will come to nothing, as does all Fox disinformation.

[meow2u3]

48. The founder of the Weather Channel must be related to the founder of Fox News Channel

I wonder if the founder's name is Murdoch? Not-so-great minds think alike.