Weatherman calls global warming greatest scam in history!
CHICAGO, Illinois - April 18, 2009 - John Coleman is best known in Chicago for being a popular part of WLS Channel 7's Eyewitness News Team from the late 1960s through the 1970s. He would later serve as the weatherman on "Good Morning America" and create the Weather Channel.
But in some circles, Coleman is known for challenging the idea of global warming, calling it "the greatest scam in history.''
"It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is hijacking public policy,'' says Coleman, now a forecaster in San Diego.
At a recent congressional subcommittee hearing on the "Impacts of Climate Change on America's National Parks" held at Twentynine Palms, Kalifornia, near Joshua Tree, Coleman testified that "these scientists know that if they do research and the results are in no way alarming, their research will gather dust on the shelf and their research careers will languish."
Coleman says the global warming movement was sparked by scientist Roger Revelle, who was seeking increased funding for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
"Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants flowed and alarming hypotheses began to show up everywhere,'' Coleman says on his web site.
At the hearing, Coleman said activities of man do alter the weather and climate, but not significantly.
"People with the anti-fossil fuel agenda [have] jumped on the global warming bandwagon and just won't let go,'' said Coleman.
Committee chairman Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) shrugged over Coleman's testimony.
"You've got to hear the other side of this argument, no matter how overwhelming the evidence is to the contrary," Grijalva said.
