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In a 2015 open letter to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he claimed that a causal relationship between rising levels of atmospheric CO 2 and rising temperatures had not been shown to exist. [10] He called global warming the "greatest scam in history" [11] and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science.
Frank Batten (February 11, 1927 – September 10, 2009 [3]) was an American billionaire businessman, and co-founder of the first nationwide, 24-hour cable weather channel, The Weather Channel. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His media company, Landmark Media Enterprises , once owned nine daily newspapers, more than 50 weekly newspapers, television stations in Las ...
The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, [9] by television meteorologist John Coleman (who had served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises).
TWC celebrated its 20th anniversary in May 2002; in honor of the event, the channel premiered a retrospective special, as well as a book chronicling the channel's history, The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon, written by TWC founder Frank Batten and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and published by Harvard Business Press.
In October 2006, The Weather Channel launched a new 30-minute program, The Climate Code, which Cullen hosted. [6] In April of the following year, The Climate Code would change to an hour format, and be retitled, Forecast Earth; Cullen was part of the creation process of both shows. Cullen departed The Weather Channel in October 2008 to help ...
Climate change poses a threat to US national parks like Yellowstone. Warmer temperatures and extreme weather impact both ecosystems and visitors. Advocates hope witnessing changes to the parks ...
These effects of climate change endanger food security, freshwater access and global health. Climate change can be limited by using low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar energy, by forestation, and shifts in agriculture. Adaptations such as coastline protection cannot by themselves avert the risk of severe, pervasive and irreversible ...
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