{"id":7723,"date":"2014-10-28T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:01:54","slug":"john-coleman-founder-of-the-weather-channel-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/john-coleman-founder-of-the-weather-channel-on-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel On Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to play the victim.  Interestingly, Fox News doesn&#8217;t exactly give him a pass at first. Then they threw him an Al Gore softball on Arctic Ice. Watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2014\/10\/28\/37392\/fnc-kellyfile-20141027-colemanclimate\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Media Matters for America has <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/weather-channel-co-founders-climate-denial-find\/201344\">a great writeup on this<\/a>.  It is all about false balance.  Fox is great at that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coleman&#8217;s experience in weather forecasting does not make him an expert in climate science &#8212; there is an immense difference between a scientist and a weather forecaster. &#8230; Disregarding the fact that Coleman never received a formal education in meteorology &#8212; his degree was in journalism &#8212; his experience predicting the weather does not make him a credible source to debunk the vast majority of scientific literature on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman also claimed that &#8220;9,000 Ph.D.&#8217;s and 31 [thousand] scientists&#8221; agree with his position on climate change, referring to the widely discredited Oregon Petition Project. Its signatories are mostly engineers with master&#8217;s degrees, and it once included the names of fictitious characters and a member of the Spice Girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coleman is not a climate scientist. Neither is Al Gore, actually.  But one of them is seriously concerned about climate change and does listen to what climate scientists day. Guess which one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to play the victim. Interestingly, Fox News doesn&#8217;t exactly give him a pass at first. Then they threw him an Al Gore softball on Arctic Ice. Watch: Media Matters for America has a great writeup on this. It is all about false balance. Fox is great at that. Coleman&#8217;s experience in weather forecasting does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/john-coleman-founder-of-the-weather-channel-on-fox-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel On Fox News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[856,857,714,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-20z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}