A rather remarkable thing happened Thursday: a documentary highly skeptical of man's role in global warming was aired on broadcast television.
The program, "Global Warming - The Other Side," was created and hosted by John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, and debuted on San Diego's independent television station KUSI.
Readers should be familiar with Coleman as the man who not only called global warming "the greatest scam in history," but also advocated suing Nobel Laureate Al Gore to expose the fraud.
Breaking with American media's tradition of almost exclusively broadcasting programs supporting Gore's view of climate change, "The Other Side" remarkably devoted an entire hour to fully explaining what the global warming-obsessed press dishonestly hide from the public (videos in four parts embedded below the fold, h/t Climate Depot):
KUSI should be applauded for airing this special.
Like nothing produced for American television to date, "The Other Side" methodically explained what the theory of global warming actually is, and addressed how carbon dioxide not only is a minor player in the atmosphere's greenhouse effect, but also how atmospheric concentrations of this gas actually trail rises in global temperatures instead of lead such increases as Gore and his minions depict.
Beyond this, "The Other Side" showed how Gore and others first got involved in this movement, and what led to the creation of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a largely political body.
From there, the program debunked the many hysterical climate change claims made by such folks including the eminent flooding of American cities and extinction of polar bears.
Lastly, "The Other Side" addressed how climate data is being manipulated by U.S. agencies in order to exaggerate historical temperatures.
In the end, this is one of the finest television documentaries yet produced concerning this issue, and KUSI is to be commended for airing it.
The onus is now on other networks to either air this program for their viewers -- with KUSI's approval of course -- or create shows of their own that provide the public with vital information for them to make an educated decision about one of the most important subjects of our time.
Will the mainstream media reciprocate and finally share all the facts of this matter with the citizenry?
Stay tuned.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Climate Jihad
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 13:20 ET by sevenJoe Romm on Climateprogress is hand wringing. He is a sock puppett for convicted felon by the name of George soros. They post warming claims and now the disease is in America. James Hansen cooked the numbers at NASA GISS.
The doping/duping is exposed.
Well this is excellent!
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 13:26 ET by MaximusBraveheartWell this is excellent! Glad the emperor's nudity is finally being exposed more often! M-B
Bravo!!!
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 13:53 ET by Patriot IIFinally! someone speaking up against this fraud!
I sent the station a thank
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:07 ET by MaximusBraveheartI sent the station a thank you e-mail: NEWS@KUSI.COM
M-B
NASA Manipulation
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 13:37 ET by slickwillie2001Background on some of Coleman's material:
NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation: http://www.spaceref.com
"Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as 'THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.' KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m."
it'll get buried
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:04 ET by wizardjrThe LameStreamMedia will bury this because it doesn't support the story line. [/cynicism]
John Coleman at one time
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:13 ET by jkwtradingJohn Coleman at one time was the best weatherman in Chicago...witty, funny and accurate..
His hey day was the 70's to early 80's and was extremely popular. I always wondered where he went.
We've got him!
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:25 ET by ChaitealoverAfter leaving the Weather Channel, John retired for a while. He came back to the airwaves here in San Diego several years ago, and has been a pleasure to watch. He's intelligent and witty, a rare combination.
We have another guy here that's totally "green." He's also totally sanctimonious and has no sense of humor. I usually turn him off [not being content to just tell the weather, he switched channels and now tells us repeatedly how to live our lives].
Chai
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken
Coleman made a term well
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:41 ET by jkwtradingColeman made a term well known in his stint in Chicago called the "boonies" or any place outside of the warming area of Lake Michigan.. That term sticks today for any and all other types of reasons now.
Towns once in the "boonies" are now quite populated..
He sure has aged though..
He sure has aged
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 16:38 ET by ChaitealoverHe sure has aged though..
Haven't we all :-)
I think he still uses the term here. I haven't really paid attention because it's a term I've known for what seems like forever and wouldn't particularly have noticed being used [I remember hearing it as I grew up on NY's Long Island]. He may have created it, then others took it far & wide.
Chai
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken
chai Coleman came to
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:06 ET by jkwtradingchai
Coleman came to chicago in or around 1971..so he had been there, would seem like forever long ago..
a guy above in one of the posts mentions Al Roker..he is also a chicago guy.
Plenty of them moved on and now are in the "bigs" TV personalities.....
Wait....it's a hoax???
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:39 ET by BlondeGolly, gee, and I was all happy Global Warming finally returned today, it is a soothing 77 and the heat is off!!!
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the MsM to take up the issue, however. That would be bad, very bad, for the Vain Obama.
I hope he fails, too.
Saving face...er...the planet
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:46 ET by acumenWill the establishment media share all the facts on climate data?
Much to the chagrin of the Goracle, independent-thinking Americans aren't holding their collective breath.
Alarmists don't die, they just hide the decline.
Short of getting Sarah
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 16:59 ET by RR GOPShort of getting Sarah Palin on there, no one's going to watch anyway.
"Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism it's just the opposite."
"All that Communism needs to make it successful is for someone to feed and clothe it."
Airing by local stations
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 18:33 ET by anneftxIs there any way to ask for airing (or hope of airing) this program to our local stations. I've e'd ours to note the show and ask for pick up. Beyond that I've not a clue what to do. anneftx
Economics and Risk.
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 18:45 ET by SideShowGood video on acceptable risk. Interesting perspective.
SideShow
"The Bart, the"-S.S.Bob
Consensus by decree
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 19:27 ET by dboNAS and AAAS aren't advocacy groups? LMAO. The leaders of these groups misrepresent the scientific consensus.
Debatable science.
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:16 ET by SideShowYou're correct. We should debate everything that has some kind of science bias to it! (full blown sarcasm)...
...though in actuality, you should always question science and discard the debunked. Always questioning the unknown and improving the understanding of the known.
SideShow
"The Bart, the"-S.S.Bob
We are trying
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:18 ET by RESTLESS 1To discard the debunked, but you keep coming back, Syrius.
BTW, how does it feel to know the koshead libs don't like you either?
"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest
TWC becoming unwatchable
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 19:47 ET by nkviking75TWC is getting less and less watchable all the time now that NBC Universal has its grubby hands on it. More and more programs, less and less forecasts. Greeny weeny features. A morning show with that paragon of serious weather journalism, Al Roker. The formerly-all-business network even had one of their meteorologists proposed to on air recently. Let's hope NBC will have to sell it to someone who really cares about weather.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
parody
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:27 ET by jon_torlinIt's pretty much a parody of what it used to be. TWC is now TPC, The Parody Channel.
I don't watch it anymore either except on the 8s except now half the time, the "Local on the 8s" don't even show up except at the bottom of the hour or at the top of the hour. They spent some money on some cool stuff like those huge HUGE monitors and some other set re-design, but even that's not enough to get me to want to watch it.
Put simply, you can dress it up all you want, but if the content sucks, you got a lemon.
-Jon
YUGO John “The way
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:55 ET by botgYUGO John
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Great Segment Noel
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 22:38 ET by SkipperMLMThat was great Noel!
The way to understand CO2 emissions/Earth Warming is in the Lag/Lead of the data
Global Warming
Sat, 01/16/2010 - 00:33 ET by brain trustIn response, Al Gore issued a death wish against John Coleman.
Before we have a government that can supply us with everything we will have a government that can provide us with nothing.
The most disturbing fact of the video
Sat, 01/16/2010 - 11:58 ET by upcountrywaterReduction of the worlds thermometers, from 6,000 to about 1,000 today... Most of those are in warm areas and at sea level.
Record cold is out there, however no one will record it.
Flush science.
For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the Sun and the climate of Earth’