From Anthony:
Forecaster, father, and friend of WUWT, John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, passes away
It is with great sadness that I announce this. John Coleman was a true hero of mine, and a great friend. He made gigantic contributions to television, to weather forecasting, and even to the National Weather Service who changed and upgraded many of their methods to accommodate the visionary ideas he had in founding the Weather Channel.
In 1983, Coleman won the American Meteorological Society award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist. The organization credited Coleman for “his pioneering efforts in establishing a national cable weather channel,” according to the AMS website.
I last saw John Coleman a couple of months ago in Chicago at a gathering of TV meteorologists and climate skeptics. He was as jovial and as witty as ever.
To say “he will be missed”, is an understatement.
Dr. Coleman was one of the giants of meteorology. He was quite the global warming skeptic as anyone who actually looks at what is happening as opposed to looking at the output of some computer model will be. Real data trumps computer models all of the time.
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