I had the opportunity to talk with John at length during the Weather Channel 30th anniversary reunion which I attended (and live blogged) this past weekend in Atlanta (thanks so very much to all of you who helped with travel expenses, it was a true honor for me to be there.). John felt that this story is one that should be covered by every TV station in America, and I agreed. So, as John does, he leads and hopes others follow.
In the video he says this:
The idea that carbon dioxide produced by our fossil fuels threatens the planet Earth — that one seems to have pretty well failed the test of time.
Of course many on the other side of the AGW debate don’t want to accept that, but the fact is that some have come to their senses and climbed down, such as James Lovelock did recently.
This will be up on YouTube for maximum exposure at some point John assures me, until then, please visit the KUSI-TV website here to watch the video:
Here it is on YouTube, including the fix for the hurricane rotation:
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Is Dr. Heidi Cullen (a.k.a. the Weather Bimbo) going to call for John Coleman to be stripped of his professional certifications?
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528
Philip Bradley says: May 2, 2012 at 12:28 am
Some kinds of aerosols have very similar cloud seeding effects, particularly low level clouds, as GCRs.
Aerosol levels vary/have varied significantly from daily to century timescales.
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Hi Philip,
Can you provide real measurements (with verifiable sources) to demonstrate your point that “Aerosol levels vary/have varied significantly from daily to century timescales”?
Douglas Hoyt says not so: I quote him as follows:
The pyrheliometric ratioing technique is very insensitive to any changes in calibration of the instruments and very sensitive to aerosol changes.
Here are three papers using the technique:
Hoyt, D. V. and C. Frohlich, 1983. Atmospheric transmission at Davos, Switzerland, 1909-1979. Climatic Change, 5, 61-72.
Hoyt, D. V., C. P. Turner, and R. D. Evans, 1980. Trends in atmospheric transmission at three locations in the United States from 1940 to 1977. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1430-1439.
Hoyt, D. V., 1979. Pyrheliometric and circumsolar sky radiation measurements by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1923 to 1954. Tellus, 31, 217-229.
In none of these studies were any long-term trends found in aerosols, although volcanic events show up quite clearly. There are other studies from Belgium, Ireland, and Hawaii that reach the same conclusions. It is significant that Davos shows no trend whereas the IPCC models show it in the area where the greatest changes in aerosols were occurring.
There are earlier aerosol studies by Hand and Marvin in Monthly Weather Review going back to the 1880s and these studies also show no trends.
Regards, Allan
Leif Svalgaard says: May 1, 2012 at 9:31 pm
He must have borrowed material from Al Gore: check the video at 3:20 the hurricane is rotating the wrong way.
Congratulations Leif !
You have discovered a tempest… … in a teapot. 🙂
Allan MacRae says:
May 2, 2012 at 7:49 pm
You have discovered a tempest… … in a teapot. 🙂
Just sloppy ‘editing’ which degrades the video’s credibility. Puts it on par with Al Gore’s.
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Leif Svalgaard says: May 2, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Allan MacRae says: May 2, 2012 at 7:49 pm
You have discovered a tempest… … in a teapot. 🙂
Leif: Just sloppy ‘editing’ which degrades the video’s credibility. Puts it on par with Al Gore’s.
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Leif, I think your above statement is “over the top” – excessive and unfair. Here’s why:
Al Gore is a key player in a blatant fraud that has caused society to squander a trillion dollars of scarce global resources on a non-existent global warming crisis and related energy nonsense.
John Coleman’s techie used a flawed two-second video clip of a hurricane rotating in the wrong direction. John did not, to my knowledge, try to defraud anyone, nor did his “error” cost us a trillion dollars, or even one dollar.
Anthony, puleese get your friend John to cut this pointless 2-second clip out of his video, so that Leif can sleep nights and stay calm.
Leif is absolutely right to point out this mistake. All those ticking Leif off display a Mannian hypocritical quality in their handling of criticism. If Gore has a duty to keep his house in order, then so does Coleman.
Allan MacRae says:
May 2, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Anthony, puleese get your friend John to cut this pointless 2-second clip out of his video, so that Leif can sleep nights and stay calm.
It seems to me you are the one who is hot under the collar. John should have reviewed the video and caught the error. Now, blaming it on an unnamed ‘editor’ and saying that Coleman is not responsible for the clips is lame. The wrong rotating hurricane reminds me of Al Gore’s book ‘Out Choice’ http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3AAl%20Gore&page=1 where he commits the same error. Perhaps Gore will also blame it on some ‘editor’ and is also not responsible. My point is that to counteract Gore’s nonsense, it is poor style and ineffective propaganda to commit the same error. But, I take it that you disagree.
Allan MacRae says:
May 2, 2012 at 9:46 pm
John Coleman’s techie used a flawed two-second video clip of a hurricane rotating in the wrong direction. John did not, to my knowledge, try to defraud anyone
Nor did he do simple quality control, rather may blame it on a ‘techie’. Here is Al Gore’s version
http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/mistakes-with-cover-to-our-choice-by-al-gore#slide=8439816
I predict that someone will make the same scathing remarks about Coleman’s.
What’s wrong with the direction of the storm’s rotation? Have some people forgotten that cyclones rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
kirkmyers says:
May 3, 2012 at 8:45 am
“What’s wrong with the direction of the storm’s rotation? Have some people forgotten that cyclones rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere?”
It would be fortunate if this were a southern hemisphere cyclone as it might put some of the more pompous of those in this discussion in their place.
No Leif, I’m not upset at all, just slightly amused, and bemused.
I think you are technically correct, but I also think you are ‘way too smart to waste your time on this trifling issue.
I do hope John takes the few minutes to correct this error. Anthony???
Best regards Leif, stay well, Allan 🙂
Allan MacRae says:
May 3, 2012 at 11:19 am
waste your time on this trifling issue
When somebody has been found out, sycophants invariably call the error ‘trifling’…