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John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel who now works as an on-camera weatherman in San Diego, California,
spoke out last week to say that Al Gore and the United Nations' global warming claims are a bunch of baloney.
From founder of a network to weatherman? Kinda sounds like a step down to us!
Maybe he made loads of money from the sale of the channel and just really likes weather reporting?
You can click here to read Coleman's diatribe.
However, in re. Coleman's claims — are they truly objective counter points to Gore's Inconvenient Truth.
Coleman's claims reeked 'Republican-right' arguments to 'Democrat-left' Gore's assertions (i.e. Coleman appears to support flinging the environmentalists out of the way to get at America's oil sources and build more oil refineries across the land). Plus, he gave a shout out to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for sharing his P.O.V. with the masses.
Are his assertions that Gore and the UN manipulated their scientific data to advance the global warming theory right on?
The 9,000 scientists he says signed a petition refuting the global warming claims — are they totally free from any influence from the oil industry?
Can we really pump shit loads of CO2 in the air and it not hurt us, like Coleman argues?
Are there objective 'non-partisan' voices out there on the issue?
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Yes Perez, there are plenty of scientists out there with no political party backing that agree that global warming is man made. In fact it is the general consensus.
it is just my assumption that most of perez' readers are not right wing radicals yet many are in disagreement with gore; so that makes me think that mainstream america is in disagreement with gore, as am I; so how the hell does this guy gore get so much support if the average person can see right through him???? he is an asshole bent on making money by people trying to buy off on their carbon footprints, hypocrite and thief!!! smarten up america
How in the hell do you go from "founder of the weather channel" to camera man….this smells like bull shit!
Why do you talk about stuff you don't understand? Volcanoes have caused most of the serious global problems in centuries past. Oil flows up into oceans through vents and "pollutes" sea life. Hurricanes have existed as long as winds and currents have. It is far more complex than MAN can fix. We can't kill the earth, but manipulating crops and fuel can STARVE people.
whether global warming is real or not, its not going to be at catastrophic as the inconvenient truth says it will be, only because oil and coal are going to run out in about fifty years.
but whatever. just because global warming isnt real doesnt mean that ocean pollution doesnt kill thousands of sea animals, it doesnt mean that living in a polluted city is any better for you than smoking and it doesnt mean that cutting down rainforests isnt fucking up dynamic equilibrium in the tropics.
humans arent the only life on earth.
One day we will wake up and realize that global warming is the biggest scam of the century…and people are seriously getting rich off of it. yes, recycle, etc. but the media never mentioned that the ozone "hole" repaired itself a long time ago. WAKE UP EVERYONE
Coleman's right. Gore is feeding us crap so he can make some money and make a name for himself. You can't blame him though. He has to try and gain a good rep after that recount fiasco.
You should try dumbing down, oh wait, you're already there.
Honestly, who cares if global warming is real or not? The things that they claim cause global warming are things we shouldn't be doing anyway.
So even if there is no global warming, what's the worse that happens…oh my gosh, we have cleaner air? oh noes!
there are documentaries trying to say that we are not completely at fault for whats happening to the earth
it is already a fact that this has happened to the earth before millions of years ago and its part of its cycle.
however many scientists are being rejected for funding because they do not condone global warmings theory and its become a big problem for them
people have a right to believe what they do and try to research to prove it!
Has anyone else noticed that when people who get their info from Rush Limbaugh or Fox News pipe up, they are so unbearably stupid it's painful to behold? It's as if cows learned to talk.
Re: green – There is not just one but two holes in the ozone now. Stop telling lies.
Non-partisan? International? How about The Union of Concerned Scientists? They are a respected, credible, volunteer organization. They have a web site, so google them. They've been sounding the alarm for years now. (Al Gore did not invent the concept of global warming, he just publicized it.)
Don't get your scientific information from blogs and websites expecting an unbiased viewpoint. Take a science class, or read scientific papers from legitimate journals (www.sciencedirect.com is a good source), just keep an eye open for where the funding comes from.
Most of the posts on here lack any scientific understanding, if you're going to have a strong opinion, back it up with actual comprehension of the issue at hand. For those of you that are knowledgeable, way to go, especially those that used climate change instead of global warming!
Hmmmm, who to believe? A weatherman or a Harvard-educated man…that's a tough one…
How come you question Coleman but you don't question Gore? Gore is making money from this. Coleman is not. The "scientists" that signed the UN Climate stuff all stood to make money from signing. The 9,000 that refute the Climate Panel did not stand to make money. In fact none are tied to the oil industry at all. Get your facts straight.
Global warming is the modern day hoax. Science does not back it up at all. Check the facts.
Re: mmm – George Bush is Harvard and Yale educated also. Watch your argument.
Well…..you always have to look at who stands to make the most money. Somewhere in there you'll find the truth. John Coleman et al will probably have investments in drilling off the US coastline (which, btw there is massive gov't subsidy for to reduce 'research and exploration' costs) On the other hand, Gore et al have a good deal in vested in alt. energy research (not as much gov't subsidy, but a little - not enough to make it worthwhile, though) And, if alt energy 'takes off' there's a LOT of money to be made.
Who's right? Who knows. But, I can say with total assurance that the likes of Limbaugh don't have a clue what's right - they're just telling the story that their check-writers want them to tell. That's Entertainment!
Re: chris – Do you have any Idea how much money Al gore has made on his global warming crusade he's made MILLIONS on the lecture circuit not to mention the Fact the MR. Gore manages and owns part of an investment company that pushes green stocks and alternative energy companies don't you think it's a good way to push green energy companies who's stock you sell and manage by saying current conventional technologies are killing the planet?
'From founder of a network to weatherman, sounds like a step down to us'
I can't wait until you fucking fail.
I googled John Coleman. He started his career as a weather man in Chicago-I watched him as a child, so I thought I knew the name. He is knowledgable-I wonder where he gets his planet-warming facts from?
So anyway, that's why he is doing weather in Cali. after starting the Weather Channel. Also, he voluntarily left the Weather Channel cause he was pissed at how they were acting about global warming.
Are there non-partisan people out there, perez asks. Yes, the 9,000 scientists who signed a petition saying global warming is a crock of shit. Unfortunately the Al Gore's of the world have figured out how to make a fortune out of this fake global warming garbage and won't let it go. You don't get grant and research money if you say global warming doesn't exist. You can't sell carbon credits if there's no global warming. Always follow the money. Does anyone realize that the same person who kicked off all this global warming bull is the same one who said the world would be under ice by the end of the 1970's, that we were in for a new ice age. He was wrong about that and wrong about global warming. People are such idiots. Someone like Al Gore comes around with a new kind of snake oil, and you all lap it up. Dopes!!
I have a degree in Economics with a specialty in Environmental Economics, with a minor in Environmental Biology. I was convinced Global Warming was a real threat, but after four years of studying it and listening to brilliant people like Michael Crichton (who, in addition to having written Jurassic Park is also an anthropologist, and Harvard trained doctor) and Richard Lindzen (who is a professor of Meteorology at MIT and is a Harvard trained atmospheric physicist), I'm not convinced it is a threat anymore. We haven't experienced any warming since the early 90's. We've seen fabrications in "An Inconvenient Truth." Yes, some of the arctic is shrinking, but the antarctic ices are actually growing. There is also something called Bond Events, which are climate fluctuations occuring every 1500 years or so, which could play some part in the changing climate. Finally, many astronomy professors are starting to better understand the role that sun-spots play on our climate, postulating with great evidence that the sun plays a more important part in our climate than we ever thought. All of this combined leads me to believe that Global Warming isn't the issue we have made it out to be. A global summit of Nobel Price winning economists last month said that addressing Global Warming was the 30th best way to spend money in order to help the earth's population, out of 30. The best thing to do? Provide vitamins to the poorest countries. Maybe we should shift our priorities.
Global warming is a hoax perpetuated by environmentalist wackos who want to control our lives in every conceivable way by passing laws to tell us every move to make. Their scare tactics re. global warming are to force this on us.
Can we really pump shit loads of CO2 in the air and it not hurt us, like Coleman argues?
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In a nutshell… yes. You really think that we insignificant humans have that much clout to fuck with a huge planet? I am not saying that we shouldn't be good stewards to our planet, because we should. However, most of this green shit is just bullshit so someone can sell you something to get more 'green' (money) It really is not a Republican/Democrat issue.
Good Christ, you retards, stick to issues you know something about, like bikini waxing or leggings. Is there a "nonpartisan voice"??? Uh, yeah, scientists. Fucktards.
CO2 is what we breathe out..
CO2 is needed i order for O2 to be produced.
CO2 is what plants use as food (their energy source). Also, there is more Argon in the atmosphere than there is CO2.
DISGUSTING White shit on His face PEREZ belongs on Yours!
I love and respect Al Gore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every few million years or so earth does this process on its own. IE - the ice age….dinosaurs didn't cause it…it's just the earth doing what it always does. Sure we, Ameicans, pollute a ton but we are by far not the worst of many other nations
Of course we are paying the price for using the Earth as a giant garbage can! Seems obvious to me that it's all very harmful for the atmosphere, whether Al Gore tells me so, or Plush Limbaugh refutes it!
It's a no-brainer.
i live in san diego and i just want to let other people know that he is not only a brilliant and smart weatherman but hes funny and fun to watch but i have to say it was quite suprising to see him take a break on his positive good humor attitude and be completly serious.
I attended a well known university, every geology professor I had said that there is no REAL evidence to support global warming. The earth has been going through phases like this for millions of years. My dad always tells me that he remembers when he was in school in the 70's, everyone always talked about global cooling and how the world was going to go into another ice age… Its just political hype. No one is saying we should trash the environment, we should definitely respect it, and probably take better care of it. But to say that we are creating a vicious cycle is a bit rediculous when you compare the release of CO2 by any volcano compared to the entire amount humans have produced… lets be real. How about Al gore give up the jet that I am sure he takes to all these conferences and crap… how much CO2 is that putting out… if he wasnt in it for the money, he would drive his prius to these events rather than his jet!
I think it's funny that Coleman is even being listen to. I live in San Diego and he is on KUSI- a second rate news station, where all the has been news casters go. He is like a hundred years old and probably thinks the world is flat and that smoking doesn't cause cancer.
Even if global warming is a "hoax" or "a cult" what better hoax/cult to be a part of. GW or not we are bettering the planet we live on. Truth is we are running out of resource and we are the only ones that can do anything about it. Us being more environmentally conscience is not a bad thing.
"In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil—America’s entire gas consumption for one day."
Re: AI – Geology professors would not be experts on current climate change. That's not what they do. Why not ask the gas station attendent down the street or a clerk at Walmart? Geez.
Re: beezy – "Sure we, Ameicans, pollute a ton but we are by far not the worst of many other nations"
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Yeah, we are. China is catching up but for decades, we have been the pigs of the world. You folks don't get out a lot, do you? (Court doesn't count.)
Re: Me – George Bush is Harvard and Yale educated also. Watch your argument.
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George Bush has acknowled global climate change is happening quite some while back, after resisting for too long. What news are you watching that you didn't know this?
This picture is uncalled for!
Re: dumb – And "DUMB" people! lol
Pfft… if geology professors who study the earths past changes (ie TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE, ICE FORMATIONS, global changes) dont know about the earths patterns… who does? people who study geology also study trends in all those important factors such as climate to give them an idea of what was going on… so i am pretty sure geology professors would know things like this… i mean come on, like al gore would know! that completely nullifies his argument than as well… whats al gores degree in again? i believe it has nothing to do with climate
The Czech President asked Gore if he would like to debate Global Warming.
Gore refused.
Talk about a carbon footprint in your face.
Don't fall for Gore's lies. He's making money off this.
Re: AI – "Pfft… if geology professors who study the earths past changes (ie TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE, ICE FORMATIONS, global changes) dont know about the earths patterns… who does?"
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Meterologists. Chaos theorists. Oh, yeah, and the majority of scientists existing on the Earth today. Geologists study what's already happened. The folks who are sounding the alarm about global climate change in modern times are studying what's happening today, in circumstances that are unprecedented in Earth's history. The human population is doubling every 40 years, (we now have over six billion people) — there have never been even close to that many people covering the globe. We are in the midst of a major extinction event, something that only happens every few MILLION years. And we are pouring industrial pollutants into our environment at a rate no one ever imagined. You know what outside scientists could give you a useful clue? Biologists. Ask them what happens when the bacteria in a petri dish start to drown in their own wastes because they are in a closed system. Ask them if something so small as a bacteria could really have a serious effect on its environment. One? No. Six billion? Yes.
Re: wbs –
Again, I don't know where you're from, but there's a huge push in towns, cities, from the media, etc.. I really don't understand why people are so tough on the U.S. on this issue. So many American produced hybrids have been introduced in the past two years it's amazing. I don't know anybody (whether or not they believe in global warming) who is not conserving because they care about what's going on and because they have fiscal common sense.
I do agree with you that Europe has been better about the environment than we have. But the countries in Europe are also smaller, so we have an enormous country with a lot more changes to make. I've mentioned this a bunch of times on here that France gets over 70% of their energy from nuclear power. That idea has been completely shot down the Democrats.
It's really all very complicated, and a sweeping change isn't come overnight, but it's well on it's way. I live in a 5,000 sq. ft, 100+ year old Victorian which is impossible to make totally energy efficient, but we try. So, we do the little things that people can do to be more efficient, but it'll never be a perfect system.
I apologize if I jumped on you like that, I just get very defensive here when told that we don't try…
In addition to my post above, I'm stating that I DO NOT believe in global warming. The climate changes all the time. Lest, we forget the forget the frenzy in the late 70's of imminent Global Cooling. I haven't seen any icebergs floating around NYC lately. Just saying.
However, The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. I'm sorry if I care more about a starving child, than the Global Warming loonies who think that harvesting corn for ethanol is more important. It is important to change our ways, but there are far more pressing and immediate problems in this world than replacing petrol. How many children do you think just died of starvation while I just typed this. About 18. That's disgusting and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
I do however believe that we can all do our part save energy (it's not that difficult!) and to find alternative energy, but not at the cost of human life.
you are embarasssing yourself here. Stop touting republican bullshit flack. The weatherman vs. the Nobel Prize winner, who do you think is telling the truth. Either educate yourself about this stuff or shut up about it. I know you have closet republican tendencies so let me break it down. Everything republicans are for is going to make them money. If they are against something it means they will lose money. They are against environmental policy because their bread and butter comes from raping the earth in 50 different ways. If they could find a way to get rich from green policy, they would. You WILL NOT find the 'objective' voice you are looking for on this, only pro-green policy and rethug propaganda throwing billions into the fight against it. Get a clue.
"Weatherman" or "Meteorologist" - ? Big difference.
if you want a concise and logical right-wing rant on global warming that may give you another think… check out author (and i believe he does some "washington post" commentary) JOHN RINGO at John Ringo.com. yes, it's him: OH JOHN RINGO NO!! he actually makes some sense and has made me THINK about science and what is possible… yeah, he writes novels and science fiction but it made me take a second look. and i am an old hippie, now floating in the middle…. also his OH JOHN RINGO NO! tees support the HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION… and i quote from their site: "Every year we work with hundreds of survivors of torture, trafficking, genocide and rape. By listening to the voices of survivors, we acknowledge what they have been through and support their recovery in a place where they can feel safe." a throughly good guy!
GORE BLOWS, COLMAN IS ON THE MONEY!!!!!
Wrong, Laura, I am a regular Perez reader and a Republican. There goes your theory. Don't make assumptions… I know a lot of conservatives who like to read Perez.
Actually Coleman is a meteorologist, not a weatherman. San Diego has meteorologists, smelLA has weathergirls.
And he is right, global warming is a lie.
Why do people think that posing an alternative opinion means it must be coming from a hack? Do you people seriously not realize that there are many different sides to this issue?
There is not enough evidence to say that there is or isn't such a thing as global warming… people can believe what they want but there is NO HARD EVIDENCE to support either arguments.