Weather Channel distances itself from retired founder and current climate-change denier

Photo credit:  Heartland Institute

As opined in Get politics out of climate change:  Opposing view.  (USA Today, 4/21/2016)

*As I suspect he wants to keep that Heartland Institute gig going.  Clearly, this conservative, free-market think tank has found itself a soul mate.  USA Today, of course, doesn't bother to tell us this.

The distancing took place almost 2 years ago.

Coleman's formal training is in journalism.

And he apparently considers himself something of an entertainer.



Other climate change posts: 
Climate Change and dying coral reefs: World sticks collective head in sand.  (4/10/2016)
Climate change, rising sea level threaten Kennedy Space Center launch site.  (4/6/2016)

The new normal: Iditarod adapts to climate change by importing snow.  (3/8/2016)

The Marshall Islands and climate change: "We're talking about something that's happening NOW" .  (12/2/2015)

Monthly global temperature record broken for 6th month in a row.  (11/18/2015)

The world continues to set a record pace in its warm ways.  (10/28/2015)

Picture this: The hottest August on record globally.  (10/6/2015)

Globally, 2015 continues its record-breaking warm ways.  (8/24/2015)

Worldwide in April 2015, temperatures were above average.  (5/28/2015)

Record global heat continues.  (5/8/2015)

Is it any surprise that the education-bashing Scott Walker appears to be the favorite among Iowa climate change deniers.  (5/7/2015)

No Longer Mighty, the Rio Grande is Disappearing.  (4/15/2015) 

It's a big (and warming) world out there: January 2015 is 2nd warmest since 1880.  (2/20/2015) 

Republicans need to generate a new climate change meme.  (1/21/2015)

2014 is the warmest year.  (1/18/2015)

‘I’m Not A Scientist’: A Complete Guide To Politicians Who Plead Ignorance On Climate Change.  (Think Progress, 10/3/2014)

35,000 walruses with nowhere to go tell us that climate change is real.  (10/7/2014) 

Climate change/ocean acidification: Washington's conservative legislators fiddle while the state's baby oysters die by the billions.  (8/4/2014)

Climate change: Somebody can't see the forest for the trees.  (7/29/2014) 

Extreme weather, climate change: The Pacific Northwest edition.  (7/22/2014)

This isn't what Gene McDaniels had in mind (Unh, unh, unh, unh, unh, unh).  (5/21/2014)

In this case, you'll find the Crazy, a hidebound ideologue, in room 205 of the Russell Senate Office Building.  (5/14/2014)

Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9/2014)

The rising sea levels of Bangladesh.  (3/30/2014)

Cold enough for you?  (3/9/2014)

Meteors, glaciers, and climate change.  (1/14/2014)

Climate change spurs northward growth of mangroves.  (1/1/2014)

Dear Skeptics, Climate change is already driving informed business decisions.  (12/15/2013)

Florida's vulnerable coastline.  (11/12/2013)

Promoting the need for regionalism among nations along the Bay of Bengal coast.  (10/14/2013)

Climate change deniers continue to jump on the Daily Mail crazy train (or Oops! they did it again).  (9/25/2013) 

Climate change, as a matter of fact.  (8/31/2013)

Here's what got Ron Johnson's undies in a bundle (NoRoJo in 2016, chapter 12).  (8/15/2013)

Georgia's anti-science climate denier caucus.  (7/31/2013)

Making Fox News-Inspired Jokes About Climate Change? Consider Australia.  (3/5/2013)

The New Normal: Living With Extreme Weather (Northeastern U.S. Edition).  (2/10/2013)

1975: "There's a new ice age coming, but I wouldn't want to predict when.".  (1/27/2013)