John Coleman writes on his Facebook page about the CNN “Reliable Sources” interview to be aired at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 2:
There is another national television interview in my immediate future. An interview with me will be included on the CNN program “Reliable Sources” Sunday morning. The program runs 8 to 9 AM San Diego PST (Did you remember to turn your clocks back last night?). The program starts at 9 AM in the Mountain Time Zone, 10 AM in the Central Time zone and 11 AM in the Eastern Time zone.
The interview was actually recorded on Friday and it was quite an experience, far from just another boring interview. I raised my voice and pointed my fingers quite a bit. How will come off, good or bad? I don’t know. After the experience I wrote an email about to several people including my good, longtime friends Joe D’Aleo. Anthony Watts, Marc Morano and Jim Lakely. I explained about hearing what the host of the program had to say off the air to the CEO of The Weather Channel. It was something not meant for me to hear and it stirred me up more than a little bit.
On the blog “Somewhat Reasonable” Jim Lakely wrote:
John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel and a long-time friend of The Heartland Institute, wrote an open letter to UCLA’s Hammer Museum last month, demanding it open up a climate change discussion to the “skeptic” point of view. That letter got a lot of attention, and Coleman has been making the rounds of media outlets this week.
On Monday, he was seen by two million viewers on “The Kelly File” with Megyn Kelly on the Fox News Channel. Later that night, Coleman was a guest on “Coast to Coast AM,” which for decades has been the most popular overnight radio program in North America with three million listeners.
So tune in to CNN at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 2 to watch Coleman on “Reliable Sources” talk about the media’s complicity in perpetuating an unscientific panic about man’s influence on the climate. Coleman tells us the conversation (taped on Friday for broadcast Sunday morning) focused on The Weather Channel’s response to Coleman’s Monday appearance on “The Kelly File.”
Coleman says the host “didn’t know what hit him,” and, “I assure you, this is not your average TV interview.”
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Dr. Watts,
Could you post a transcript and his comments of what he overheard. Probably the same stuff I have heard for years. I have quite a few converts. Holy Plato.
I will catch the You tube. I dumped the cable guy and the satellite. Can’t fix stupid. Just turn it off.
As the solar minimum takes affect with fewer power plants and a weaken grid, the drive by media will drop this man-made stuff like a block of ice.
Paul
Good. Me too. YouTube has enabled streaming, so I have attended to hundreds of hours of lectures, principally Stanford U. Leonard Susskind.
I moved beyond the cable guy, and dumped satellite. The satellite guy expects to bundle trouble calls and for us to pay his overnight and ferry tariff. Thank goodness for DSL, if only 1.5 Mbps 188 KBps.
None of the links in the post are available to people without money.
Just click the “Reliable Sources” link above for the interview or follow this link.
CNN Reliable Sources interview:
Weather Channel versus one of its co-founders on climate change
http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/
Coleman was great but David Kenny’s, the current CEO of The Weather Company, comments were very disappointing.
Sorry, here’s the permanent link to the interview:
http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2014/11/02/weather-channel-versus-one-of-its-co-founders-on-climate-change/
Damm, it will be 2 AM Monday morning when this goes to air in Queensland.
Hope I can find it on You Tube later.
Tape it off Foxtel? I’m going to check the programming to see if CNN has it on for us.
Here is the youtube video for the Coast To Coast AM radio interview http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2014/10/28
If you pay.
Members only.
As one person said on Facebook, I hope they don’t edit your interview to alter what you actually said. It bugs me a bit that they followed up your interview on Coast To Coast, with a UFO abduction story interview.
Is John Colemen a latter day John Henry Faulk?
Are we seeing the modern day McCarthyism (CAGW) start to crumble?
Let us hope so for everyone’s sake!
He might be one of the latter day Christopher Columbus.
I believe that’s Christopher Columbi…you know, plural for Columbus.
If someone gets a link to a good recording…….
Please, post the link to Jo Nova etc . 🙂
I hope Coleman carried a pocket voice recorder.
I hope John Coleman brought his own video camera and made his own recording of the interview to keep CNN honest.
Let’s see what the magic of editing does to the interview.
As of 07:00 AM ET the show is not listed on today’s CNN lineup: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/
But if it does run you can likely catch it afterwards here: http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/
My mistake. I was looking at the “Today” tab instead of the “Sunday” tab. It is listed.
I have to thank John Coleman for standing up for truth. I look forward to the interview. With this NH winter already bearing down the CAGW er’s will be spending plenty on heating and snow removal and then we will hear that Catastrophic Climate Change Anthropogenic Global Warming Man Made CO2 did it… oy
Thanks, Anthony. I will watch John Coleman on CNN.
I’m dubious about who hit whom. I suspect while Coleman was pencil-jabbing, the host was busy with a machete. But, I’ll watch, with fingers crossed.
Hope we’re not given another lesson in creative editing.
Interview isn’t even listed on Reliable Sources preview today: http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/10/sneak-peek-at-this-sundays-show-810-11am/?iref=allsearch
CNN’s [opening] advertisement tain’t promising. We have heard John say that climate changes all the time. So their headline lead up to the interview already seems odd and not in line with what John Coleman has been all about.
“Sunday, November 2
The co-founder of the Weather Channel insists climate change isn’t real…”
I just saw it. He was excellent! (His part was about 5 minutes.)
I never even found it.
The interview went well, John held his ground pretty good. Congratulations!
Mr. Coleman’s a hero, but my sense is these things hurt more than they help. Of course they painted him as a crank denier, and the format made it impossible for him to speak in anything but broad brushstrokes. No debate, and tof course hey gave the weather channel CEO the opportunity to speak last, so no rebuttal possible. I’d have advised Mr. Coleman not to do it, though I’m sure I’m in the minority opinion.
I do not understand your “hurt more than help” opinion. At this point in the CAGW argument there is no such thing as a silver bullet or one punch knockout. I think Coleman did about as good as could be expected considering the time constraint and the biased hectoring he dealt with from the “moderator”.
To the casual CNN viewer it must have been quite a surprise to see an articulate and informed Colemen; remember, CNN viewers have bee told all “deniers” are foaming-at-the-mouth troglodytes.
John came out swinging, not letting the CNN reporter frame the discussion. Used his time well. The Reporter and the Weather Channel CEO wanted to create an issue out of John’s statement that he founded the channel. Yet, they say he has nothing to do with it today. Weird argument and off topic. I would like the CEO to show us the data supporting his assertion that extreme weather is greater than ever. Also, wiuld be interesting to hear the content of the sidebar discussion between the CNN reporter and the CEO…sounds juicy.
“I would like the CEO to show us the data supporting his assertion that extreme weather is greater than ever.”
He doesn’t need to, he is fighting a battle of perception and hopes the viewership accepts his word on it. This is the problem in present day media, the so called “journalist” do not have the courage to question someone when they make these types of assertions.
Just watched it. Not really much new here. Coleman and the current Weather Channel CEO were interviewed separately. Coleman was a bit pushy. The CEO suggested they were listening to the science of today and not the science of 30 years ago (a snipe at Coleman’s qualifications). No debate on the science. Coleman called climate science claims “baloney” and “political” referring directly to the Democrats paying scientists to get the answers they want in a closed circle of cash.
30 years ago they didn’t depend on crystal balls …er…. computer models to tell them what they see out the window.
So here is what fired me off…
The host was talking to the Kenny off of the air before the interview and as I waited in my earpiece I heard the host say that they were doing this segment because Fox had the stupid audacity to put an old, anti-science denier on the air and they wanted to set the record straight and discredit him. Of course, this really got under my skin.
[Thank you for the courage to speak in public. .mod]
What a golden opportunity for FOX news to do an expose on the abject bias in climate science by the MSM as vividly displayed in that comment.
I think the stockholders of Bain Capital (remember Romney?), The Blackstone Group, and NBC Universal, who own TWC, deserve to know if the CEO supports the statement of the CNN host! He needs to put out a statement on his position as it relates to that comment.
Words cannot express how prejudice that statement is!
In no other facet of our country would something like that be tolerated!
“..put an old, anti-science denier on the air and they wanted to set the record straight and discredit him.”
Mr. Coleman,
This was their obvious agenda, which they made no attempt whatsoever to hide. And I’m sure they wanted you a little angry to aid and abet the “old crank” theme. You did as fine a job as humanly possible under almost impossible conditions. My advice for what it’s worth, would be to insist on an actual debate next time. Otherwise, you don’t have a chance…if your goal is to change…or at least open some minds..
Plan B would be to aggressively exploit the fact CAGW proponents will not debate by pointing out that very fact.
And in addition, remind viewers that it hasn’t warmed in 17+ years, hurricanes and tornado intensity has not increased, and there are twice as many polar bears now as 50 years ago.
👍✔🌟👍✔
John:
And thank you for doing that.
From what I saw, you gave the moderator much more than he was prepared to handle. I thought the CEO’s response looked timid and generic in comparison. He certainly did not aggressively rebut your points.
great!
and nothing more to say but
[Thank you for the courage
to speak in public. .mod]
Thx – Hans
I hate to sound paranoid, but is there a chance that you were MEANT to overhear this exchange, in the hopes of “setting you off”? Maybe, they hoped to get you riled so that you would be emotional and fumble your points? If so, the CNN host is a conniving reprobate. If not, then the host is an absolute twit. Not good alternatives.
Daylight time came to an end last night here in the United States. My phone changed the time. My TV box changed time. My clock changed time. My computer changed time. I changed the clock on the stove and microwave and in my cars. But, I see this morning that WattsUpWithThat still thinks it’s daylight time. LOL
I live in Arizona. Standard time sanity reigns year-round.
True story: when daylight savings time was launched nationally way back in 1964, I had to get up at THREE THIRTY AM to go to school. Normally, it was four thirty am. We had triple sessions at Palo Verde High in Tucson.
My bus driver and I (I was picked up a 5:00 am so DST made it 4:00 am) went to Phoenix to lobby the legislature to change the laws before I either went insane or died of abuse. I even had a lawyer at this point.
The legislature listened only after Life Magazine covered my story. Pictures of a girl standing in the desert as coyotes howled at the waning moon moved enough people to change the laws so Arizona was the only state to get rid of DST.
🙂
That’s the fault of wordpress.com, not WUWT John
really no need to switch to defaitation mode.
Your’s is made.
Thx, repeated.
John, you should have hit harder on the 97% concensus based on the garbage studies that were debunked.
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The central issue isn’t science. It’s policy and the development thereof being based on a science still in its infancy (for example, we still don’t know which models get it right 6 months from now AND 60 years from now in terms of what is driving ENSO conditions). I think John is right to stick with that issue. Sound policy needs sound science. Without sound science, policy development should be tabled. Yet political wonks want to make political lemonade out of still green lemons now rotting from being picked too early. That should be the central discussion, that wisdom with regard to policy making is sorely lacking.