When I was the political reporter and weekend anchor at WISN TV, the CBS
affiliate in Milwaukee, John Coleman was our weatherman. He was s strong
conservative and was known for his sense of humor. One time it had
rained for 30 days straight. Coleman said if it rained on the 31st day
he would produce the weather forecast standing on his head. It rained.
He did it. Another time the camera opened on a wide shot of a
blindfolded John Coleman throwing darts at a dartboard labeled "Hot,"
"Cold," "Snow," "Rain," "Sunny," "Cloudy," "Fog," "Drizzle" and so on.
He had had a string of days when his forecasts had been erroneous. John
said "Well, this probably is as good as my forecasts these days."
Coleman went on to be the weatherman on "Good Morning America" for seven
years. He began the weather channel with his life savings. He
subsequently has forecast the weather in New York and Chicago. Today he
says his retirement job is weatherman for KUSI in San Diego.
In a remarkable speech before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Coleman
was very serious about global warming as the consummate fraud. He began
by saying that we should give credit where credit is due. There is, he
said, an intrinsic connection between Al Gore's campaign for global
warming and $4 per gallon gasoline. "It comes down to....the claim that
carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks of
our power plants is destroying the climate of planet earth. What an
amazing fraud; what a scam" He then recited Gore's dire warnings. "The
future of our civilization lies in the balance. That's the battle cry of
the high priest of global warming, Al Gore and his agenda driven
disciples as they predict a calamitous outcome from anthropogenic global
warming." He said Gore, with a preacher's zeal, sets out to strike
terror into us and our children and make us feel we are all complicit in
the potential demise of the planet.
"Here," said Coleman, "is my rebuttal. There is no significant man-made
global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now
and there is no reason to fear any in the future." Coleman went on to
say that the climate of earth is changing. It always has changed. But
mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the
natural forces."