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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.
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).
The Weather Channel launched on Sunday, May 2, 1982. Programming began with an introduction to the channel by Batten and Coleman, which led into an inauguration ceremony that launched the channel's first official broadcast at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time that evening, anchored by meteorologists Bruce Edwards and André Bernier. [3]
She taught a course in science communication at nearby Princeton University and is the author of The Weather of the Future. A climate scientist and science communicator, she served as The Weather Channel's climate expert from 2003 to 2008 and co-hosted Forecast Earth, the first hour-long television show dedicated to communicating climate change ...
In 2015, The Weather Channel included Romm as one of "the world's 25 most compelling voices" on climate. [73] [74] That year, Romm also wrote the book Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, a primer on the topic. [13] [75] Ralph Benko in Forbes magazine wrote that the "book ... lucidly presents the case both for deep concern and optimism ...
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 ...
[4] [5] In particular, viewers' association of Cantore's presence with incoming or in-progress severe weather events became so strong that the Weather Channel lampooned it in a one-minute 2011 commercial spot in which Cantore goes on a beach vacation, panicking nearby beachgoers and locals who take his presence as an ominous sign.
In January 2007, Spann gained notoriety as a climate change denier. He asserts that climate change is naturally caused, as part of the climate's cyclical nature. [10] However, in more recent years Spann has taken a more publicly neutral stance on the topic, refraining from going in-depth when pressed about climate change in more recent interviews.