A recent article Comments on Global Warming by John Coleman calls Global Warming a hoax. If a climatologist of

Question

his stature calls this recent fad in question, "Why isn't there more serious discussion in the scientific community? What is the true agenda of those promoting Global Warming?

Answer 1

Peer reviewed publications authored by John Coleman:  zero

Research grants awarded to John Coleman:  zero

Research positions held by John Coleman:  zero

Major research accomplishments:  zero

Presentations at major recognized scientific meetings:  zero

Just how are you defining stature?

Another great question.  How do you all do it?  Another two thumbs up and a head up for you too!

Answer 2

Good question. I hope you get an answer.

Answer 3

I have noticed from first peep about global warming that it came from the same voices crying about ozone, hydrocarbons, effluence, and anything else that could be used as an indictment against industry.

After thinking who has a big bug stuck about industry I come up with two groups.  One is rural people who have been abused by some.  The other is ivory tower, usually academic elite of a more Marxist bent.

Most of the ones I see spouting all the noise around here aren't wearing plaid shirts and boots.  Even the ones that do, never sat on a horse, a tractor or a bulldozer and never got near cattle or crops.

So, the agenda seems to be finding anything to make the evil industrial capitalists look as bad as possible.

Answer 4

John Coleman is not a climatologist.  He's a meteorologist, otherwise known as a TV weatherman.

He has zero education in climate science, zero research experience, and essentially no knowledge on the subject.

John Coleman is on par with Al Roker (who agrees that humans are causing global warming, by the way).

People need to understand that weather and climate are two entirely different subjects.

What do you mean "why isn't there more serious discussion in the scientific community?"  What do you call scientific research?  Joke discussion?

Read this:

http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html

Answer 5

We have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain and other forests, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

Answer 6

Go to this link:

http://www.youtorrent.com/tag/?q=The+Gre...

And download the documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

Then get the propaganda follow up called PROOF THAT 'THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE' WAS A SCAM.

Do some research into these topics:

The year without a summer

The Little Ice Age

Global Dimming

Super Volcanoes

When you look at the FACTS... FACTS AND ONLY FACTS... you will see that Global Warming is nothing but a cult being used to manipulate the small minded and perpetuate the adgendas of anti-advancement and anti-globalism political groups.

Nothing more.

Answer 7

How can there be serious discussion about Global Warming when there is no proof that it even remotely exists????

The funny thing is that Gore asked for billions of dollars in research to SIMPLY PROVE ITS existence, yet everyone that argues for it says, "We don't need that, the signs are already there."

So, who is asking for a serious discussion?

The IPCC published a hockey stick lie, then retracted it, by making it disappear with no explanation that THEY WERE WRONG....

People are simply falling for the rhetoric, hook line and sinker and making Gore very rich..

Global warming enthusiasts are living proof that American truly still has a drug problem....

Answer 8

"climatologist"?  "stature"?  You've got to be kidding right?  

He's a former TV weatherman (those guys aren't scientists, they merely read words while looking into a camera), with no significant science training, that was forced out of the Weather Channel because of his own incompetence at trying to run it (he ran it almost to bankruptcy).

Calling Coleman a "climatologist of ... statute" is like calling your Dental Hygienist an expert in performing root-canal surgery.

Answer 9

OK so John Coleman is a scientist, so you believe him, just because he's a scientist and he knows everything.

so how come 99% of his fellow scientists say Global warning is happening, and John Coleman is wrong . After all they are scientists so you've got to belive them right?

Hey what about all those scientists, funded by tobaco companies, who said that tobaco was harmless,back in the sixties, they were scientists too.

what about those scientists who in the 16th century said that Galileo and Copernicus were wrong and that the earth was Flat!

Answer 10

There is discussion. Al Gore won't show up to the Heartland debate in New York at the moment, because his science is wrong.

Answer 11

Follow the MONEY!

The debate is OVER!

Answer 12

Here are a few sites that present the other side of the Global Warming/Climate Change debate. There is serious discussion, but the skeptics are shouted down.

The one thing that piques my interest is the amount of money that General Electric has put into advancing the theory of "Anthropogenic" Global warming. General Electric has a lot to gain by switching to a highly electrified economy. They are the largest manufacturers of wind turbines and they are doing a lot of research to promote transportation dependent on electricity.

Take a little time to investigate the companies claiming to be "Green". There is a lot of money to be made from the resulting political shift.