Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud

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."

• Click here to watch video of Coleman on "Fox and Friends."

Coleman says his side of the global-warming debate is being buried in mainstream media circles.

"As you look at the atmosphere over the last 25 years, there's been perhaps a degree of warming, perhaps probably a whole lot less than that, and the last year has been so cold that that's been erased," he said.

"I think if we continue the cooling trend a couple of more years, the general public will at last begin to realize that they've been scammed on this global-warming thing."

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Coleman spoke to FOXNews.com after his appearance last week at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, where he called global warming a scam and lambasted the cable network he helped create.

"You want to tune to the Weather Channel and have them tell you how to live your life?" Coleman said. "Come on."

He laments the network's decision to focus on traffic and lifestyle reports over the weather.

"It's very clear that they don't realize that weather is the most significant impact in every human being's daily life, and good, solid, up-to-the-minute weather information and meaningful forecasts presented in such a way that people find them understandable and enjoyable can have a significant impact," he said.

"The more you cloud that up with other baloney, the weaker the product," he said.

Coleman has long been a skeptic of global warming, and carbon dioxide is the linchpin to his argument.

"Does carbon dioxide cause a warming of the atmosphere? The proponents of global warming pin their whole piece on that," he said.

The compound carbon dioxide makes up only 38 out of every 100,000 particles in the atmosphere, he said.

"That's about twice as what there were in the atmosphere in the time we started burning fossil fuels, so it's gone up, but it's still a tiny compound," Coleman said. "So how can that tiny trace compound have such a significant effect on temperature?

"My position is it can't," he continued. "It doesn't, and the whole case for global warming is based on a fallacy."

By esanch36 on Mar 14, 2008, 07:30 in Off Topic.

Man Tequila says on Mar 14, 2008, 09:13:

Wait, a WEATHERMAN is going to sue someone for fraud?

What about my case Man Tequila v. "FIVE days of snow"?

When Coleman puts his money where his mouth is, which will never happen, call me back.

Aunque no me creas/ si me lo propongo/ lograre olvidarte/ porque a fin de cuentas/ no soy tan cobarde./ Y termino todo una de estas tardes/ no sera dificil buscar algún sitio donde refugiarme/ donde nunca mas vuelvas a encontrarme. (Polo Montañez)

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LDW says on Mar 14, 2008, 09:53:

I am not going to comment on the legal merit of the case. I am not qualified to do that.

However....it seems to me that Gore, at the very least, is guilty of hypocrisy. My information is that his swanky mansion in Tennessee has annual utility bills for power usage of about $25,000.

Do as I say and not as I do?

From a politician??................What a surprise!!!!

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Man Tequila says on Mar 14, 2008, 12:10:

I don't know how much it costs to heat a mansion, what else does the $2000/mo include? Gore is certainly a hypocrite, like most politicos, but less so than some of his detractors.

This debate has already happened in national scientific societies, the IPCC and at the UN. To suggest this has not been debated at length ("since we can't get a debate") is disingenuous, as is Exxon-Mobil/AEI offering $10,000 to scientists to dispute climate change (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climat...).

The debate is still open, the evidence is hard to interpret and relies on a balance of probabilities. The naysayers could be right, but I wouldn't stake my baby's health on it.

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LDW says on Mar 14, 2008, 12:31:

Man Tequila...

I hope you did not interpret my comments to be questioning the science of global warming. I am not qualified to discuss that issue at a scientific level.

And....I was certainly not going to bat for Gore's political opponents.

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Man Tequila says on Mar 14, 2008, 12:44:

I know. I agree Gore is a hypocrite and opportunist.

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esanch36 says on Mar 20, 2008, 06:33:

I dont think its been debated at all. Alot of well respected scientists are afraid to step forward and say this global warming hype is bullchit. If you speak out a against it you are branded a looney and could ruin your career.

All right, I'll ask: How come it took three seconds to euthanize Eight Belles, but the Womens NBA is starting Year 12???

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Man Tequila says on Mar 20, 2008, 10:54:

People started making these claims in the 1970s. It took almost three decades for them to gain a degree of scientific respectability and win against oceans of skepticism. There is an element of groupthink in science and medicine, but far less so than most would think. You might not know too many scientists if you think they don't enjoy debating the minutiae. Some of us spent a third of our lives in university, and know many scientists.

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Robert Jorge says on Mar 20, 2008, 19:01:

I distinctly remember reading about the coming ice age back in the 70's. It was in the news for years, and articles about it were in all the magazines.

30 years later, it is massive, global warming. The arrogance of some to think we have that much influence on the world's weather patterns is breathtaking. By the way, the world's largest producer of CO2 are ants and termites.

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

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LDW says on Mar 20, 2008, 21:00:

I know one thing for sure. Al Gore's annual power bill makes him a bigger producer of CO2 than I am.

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Man Tequila says on Mar 20, 2008, 21:18:

So does his mouth.

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