Weather Channel: Despite What Our Co-Founder Says, Climate Change Is Real

Suzanne Bonner views the Weather Channel for the latest details on Hurricane Ike in her Palmetto Bay, Fla., home Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Bonner, whose home was ravaged during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and damaged in ... Suzanne Bonner views the Weather Channel for the latest details on Hurricane Ike in her Palmetto Bay, Fla., home Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Bonner, whose home was ravaged during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and damaged in Hurricane Wilma in 2005, says she rises at 5 a.m. each day to watch the Weather Channel's "Tropical Update" and spends much time perusing meteorological internet portals for the latest forecast details regarding tropical cyclones. (AP Photo/Andy Newman) MORE LESS
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The Weather Channel posted a statement Wednesday clarifying its position on global warming, just a day after its co-founder appeared on Fox News to explain why he thought man-made climate change is “bad science.”

The Weather Channel affirmed in its statement that the earth’s climate is warming. It also stated that scientists agree human activity has contributed to the “majority” of global warming over the last century:

More than a century’s worth of detailed climate observations shows a sharp increase in both carbon dioxide and temperature. These observations, together with computer model simulations and historical climate reconstructions from ice cores, ocean sediments and tree rings all provide strong evidence that the majority of the warming over the past century is a result of human activities. This is also the conclusion drawn, nearly unanimously, by climate scientists.

The statement did not mention co-founder John Coleman, although the decorated TV weatherman had disputed scientists’ consensus on man-made climate change Tuesday night on Fox’s “The Kelly File.”

“Well, there are 9,000 Ph.D.s and 31 scientists who have signed a petition that says [carbon dioxide] is not a significant greenhouse gas. Oh it’s a teeny, itsy-bitsy greenhouse gas, but it’s not in any way significant,” he argued. “And we are sure of it. It’s not like something I just made up or just thought of. I’ve studied and studied and studied.”

h/t Mediaite

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  1. FACTS? We don’t need no stinking FACTS?!?!
    We are FOX News Bitch! We decide, you agree.
    If you don’t agree, you support the TERRORISTS!
    Signed: Roger Ailes.

  2. Avatar for enon enon says:

    it’s about time there was pushback… looks like the media is gradually doing the same. although it’s likely too late to make any difference.

  3. The deniers have already set the stage that because the Weather Channel tells the truth, they are a bunch of lying liberals whose views should be ignored because they want to destroy our way of life as manifested in our God-given right to use as much damn fuel as we’ve been blessed to afford.

  4. ONe LIBtard TV CHaNNEL oPINIon versUS JoHN COLMAN, FOUnder OF THE WEather CHANNEL, 9000 PhDs, 31 Scientists, and GOD? WheN wILL LIBtards ADMIT that GLOBAL warMING is A HOAX meaNT to PROTECT researCH fuNDIng and IMPLEMENt Agenda 21 wHere THE UN will TAKE our GUNS and HERd US ALL into FEMA concentraTION CAMPS. wAKE UP LIBtards to the TRUth about GLOBAL WArmiNG!!1!!!1!!one!!!1!!1!!!

  5. “(T)he decorated TV weatherman”…

    Pretty harsh, Ms. Thompson; I didn’t think that his makeup looked that bad.

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