Misplaced Pages

John Coleman (meteorologist): Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editContent deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 12:35, 6 May 2012 edit72.196.235.207 (talk) Returning writing per Talk page. Removed POV lang as well.← Previous edit Latest revision as of 01:08, 29 December 2024 edit undo110.141.73.169 (talk) Undid revision 1261570555 by 12.1.85.179 (talk) weasal wordsTag: Undo 
(498 intermediate revisions by more than 100 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|American television weatherman and co-founder of The Weather Channel (1934-2018)}}
{{other uses|John Coleman (disambiguation)}} {{other uses|John Coleman (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox person {{Infobox person
| name = John Coleman | name = John Coleman
| image= John Chroma key 1.jpg | image = John Coleman KUSI (cropped).jpg
| caption = John Coleman, KUSI News Weathercaster | caption = Coleman in 2007
| birthname = John Coleman | birthname = John Stewart Coleman<ref name="TSD"/>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|10|15}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|10|15}}
| birth_place = ] | birth_place = ], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|01|20|1934|10|15}}
| occupation = ]
| death_place = ], ], U.S.
| status = Married
| years_active = 1953–2014
⚫ | spouse = Linda Coleman
| occupation = ], television weatherman
⚫ | relatives =
⚫ | spouse = Linda Coleman
⚫ }}
⚫ | relatives =
'''John Coleman''' is an ] TV ] noted, along with entrepreneur ], for founding ]. He presently works as an on-camera weather caster at ] in San Diego but is no longer affiliated with The Weather Channel.<ref name="kusibio">http://www.kusi.com/about/bios/weather/1838191.html</ref>
|alma_mater = ]<br><small>Bachelors in Journalism, 1957</small>
⚫ }}
'''John Stewart Coleman''' (October 15, 1934 – January 20, 2018) was an American television ]. Along with ], he co-founded ] and briefly served as its chief executive officer and president.<ref name=kusibio>{{cite news |url=http://www.kusi.com/story/12963605/john-coleman |title=John Coleman |work=] |access-date=March 20, 2014 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404154135/http://www.kusi.com/story/12963605/john-coleman |archive-date=April 4, 2014}}</ref><ref name=WAGT-TV>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/national/11114421.html |title=Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming a 'Scam' |publisher=] |date=November 19, 2007| last=Rogers| first=Rich| access-date=March 20, 2014 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810223852/http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/national/11114421.html |archive-date=August 10, 2007}}</ref> He retired from broadcasting in 2014 after nearly 61 years, having worked the last 20 years at ] in ].<ref name=WAGT-TV /><ref name=sdut>{{cite news| url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/apr/10/john-coleman-weatherman-retires/| title=Forecast for John Coleman: Retirement| first1=Jay| last1=Posner| first2=Karla| last2=Peterson| date=April 10, 2014| newspaper=]}}</ref>


== Professional career == ==Professional career==
⚫ Coleman started his career in 1953 at ] in ], doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called ''At The Hop'' while he was a student at ].<ref name=kusibio /> After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station ] in ].<ref name=WAGT-TV /> Coleman was also a weather anchor for ] in ], ] in ] and then ] and ] in ].<ref name=kusibio /><ref name=APWA2008>{{cite web |url=http://sandiego.apwa.net/events/4002/ |title=Speaker: John Coleman, Weathercaster on KUSI TV in San Diego |publisher=] San Diego/Imperial Chapter |access-date=March 20, 2014}}</ref>


In 1972, Coleman and his stage crew craftsmen at WLS-TV created the first ] weather map ever in use.<ref name=kusibio /><ref name=WAGT-TV />
⚫ Coleman started his career at ] in ], doing the early evening weather cast and a local bandstand show called ''At The Hop'' while he was a student at ]. After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station ] in ], ]. Coleman was also a weather anchor for ] in ], ] in ] and then ] and ] in ].<ref name=APWA2008>, San Diego/Imperial Chapter, ]</ref>
] ], anchor ]. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor ], sportscaster ].]]


Coleman became the original weatherman on the brand-new ABC network morning program, '']''.<ref name="meteorologistobit">{{cite news| title=John Coleman, Chicago meteorologist and Weather Channel co-founder, dies at 83| url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/john-coleman-ex-chicago-meterologist-and-weather-channel-co-founder-dies-at-83/| access-date=January 21, 2018| agency=]| newspaper=]| date=January 21, 2018| archive-date=January 22, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122073117/https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/john-coleman-ex-chicago-meterologist-and-weather-channel-co-founder-dies-at-83/| url-status=dead}}</ref> He stayed seven years with the program, which was anchored by ] and ].<ref name=kusibio /><ref name="meteorologistobit"/>
At WLS, Coleman was teamed with ], ] and ] to form the ''Eyewitness News'' team, creating a news brand name and establishing a highly successful new local news format derisively dubbed "happy talk" by a local television columnist. This style of local news has been widely copied. The team dominated Chicago television news ratings for more than a decade. During his time at Chicago's ], Coleman was one of Chicago's most popular weathercasters, famous for his amusing and irreverent style. It was then that Coleman became the original weathercaster on what was then the brand-new ABC network morning program, '']''. He stayed seven years with this top-rated program anchored by ] and ].<ref name="kusibio"/>


In 1981, he persuaded communications entrepreneur ] to help establish The Weather Channel, serving as TWC's CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. After leaving TWC, Coleman became weather anchor at ] in ] and then at ] in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, ] in San Diego, in what Coleman fondly calls, "his retirement job."<ref name="kusibio"/> In 1981, he persuaded communications entrepreneur ] to help establish The Weather Channel, serving as TWC's CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. After being forced out of TWC a year later,<ref name=kusibio/> Coleman became weather anchor at ] in ] and then at ] in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, ] in San Diego in 1994,<ref name="LAT">{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-john-coleman-obit-20180121-story.html| title=John Coleman, Weather Channel co-founder who doubted climate science, dies at 83| newspaper=]|date=January 22, 2018| last1=Robbins| first1=Gary| last2=Garrick| first2=David}}</ref> in what Coleman fondly calls "his retirement job."<ref name=kusibio /> Coleman abruptly left KUSI while on vacation in April 2014, with no on-air farewell.<ref name=sdut />


Coleman obtained professional membership status in the American Meteorological Society and was named AMS Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year in 1983.<ref name=ams/> Coleman said that after ten years of attending AMS National Meetings and studying the papers published in the organization's journal, the AMS was driven by political, not scientific, agendas and withdrew.<ref name=kusibio />
⚫ ==Views on global warming==


⚫ == Views on global warming ==
In the fall of 2007, he described the current concern over ] as "a fictional, manufactured crisis, and a total scam."<ref name=APWA2008/><ref>, ], ], November 11, 2007.</ref><ref>, John Coleman</ref>
Coleman spoke out as a "rejectionis" of ] in 2007 after watching ]'s "Green is Universal" week, when as a sign of environmental awareness, the studio lights were cut for portions of ] pre-game and half-time shows.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Homans |first=Charles |date=January 7, 2010 |title=Hot Air |url=https://www.cjr.org/cover_story/hot_air.php?page=all |journal=Columbia Journalism Review |access-date=March 20, 2014}}</ref> In a 2015 open letter to the ], he claimed that a causal relationship between rising levels of atmospheric {{CO2}} and rising temperatures had not been shown to exist.<ref name=express>{{cite news| last1=Taylor| first1=Jason| title='Global warming the greatest scam in history' claims founder of Weather Channel| newspaper=]| location=London| url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/clarifications-corrections/526191/Climate-change-is-a-lie-global-warming-not-real-claims-weather-channel-founder| access-date=January 3, 2015}}</ref> He called ] the "greatest scam in history"<ref>{{cite news |date=November 9, 2007 |title=Weather Channel boss calls global warming 'the greatest scam in history' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3313785/Weather-Channel-boss-calls-global-warming-the-greatest-scam-in-history.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=March 20, 2014 |location=London}}</ref> and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science.<ref name="Grauniad2014">{{cite news |date=November 2, 2014|title=Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman prefers conspiracies to climate science|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/nov/03/weather-channel-founder-not-credible-on-global-warming|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="WaPo2014">{{cite news |date=November 3, 2014 |title=Why does anyone pay attention to John Coleman, Weather Channel co-founder, on climate change? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/11/03/why-does-anyone-pay-attention-to-john-coleman-weather-channel-co-founder-on-climate-change |newspaper=]| first=Jason| last=Samenow}}</ref> Coleman held a bachelor's degree in journalism and stated in interviews that he has not conducted any scientific research in the area of climate change.<ref name="Grauniad2014" /><ref name="WaPo2014"/> Coleman's views contributed to his decision to drop out of the American Meteorological Society.<ref name="obit1" />


⚫ == Personal life ==
In 2008, Coleman gave a speech to the ] ] blaming the "global warming scam" and ] lobby, for rising gas and food prices. He also declared the scam "a threat to our economy and our civilization."<ref>{{cite web
Coleman was born in 1934 in ], ], the youngest of five children born to Hazel Coleman, a mathematics teacher, and Claude Coleman, a college professor.<ref name="WP">{{cite web| url=https://alncfeaturedscientist.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/john-coleman/| title=Featured Scientists| publisher=WordPress| date=20 October 2017}}</ref> Coleman was married twice. He and his first wife had three children before divorcing.<ref name="TSD"/> Coleman met his second wife, Linda, at a poker table in ] and was married to her for eighteen years.<ref name="TSD">{{cite web|url=https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2017/08/14/how-the-weatherman-kusis-john-coleman-plays-retirement-card-in-vegas/| title=How's the Weatherman? KUSI's John Coleman Plays Retirement Card in Vegas| date=August 14, 2017| last=Stone| first=Ken| newspaper=Times of San Diego}}</ref> In May 2016, John and Linda Coleman moved to Sun City<ref name="TSD"/> in the ] Community of Las Vegas.<ref name=kusibio /> Coleman died on January 20, 2018, at his home in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/obituaries/john-coleman-co-founder-of-the-weather-channel-dies-at-83.html| title=John S. Coleman, Weather Channel Co-Founder, Dies at 83| newspaper=]| date=January 21, 2018| last=Hsu| first=Tiffany}}</ref><ref name="LAT"/><ref name=obit1>{{cite news| url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/weather/sd-me-john-coleman-20180121-story.html| title=San Diego weather icon John Coleman dies| newspaper=San Diego Union-Tribune| date=January 21, 2018| access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref>
|title=Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081013230539/http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html
|author=John Coleman |publisher=KUSI.com}} (via the ])</ref>


==Awards==
Coleman has also made appearances on ], ] and on the ] program, '']'', to share his global warming views. Coleman recently published an article entitled "The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam"<ref name="amazing"> Jan 29, 2009</ref> in which he promotes the idea that many scientists and politicians have been embroiled in fraudulent activity based on incomplete science and a political motive for a world government. Coleman says the genesis of the global warming movement was the claims of scientist ], an early mentor of Al Gore.
* 1983 – Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year, ].<ref name=kusibio /><ref name=ams>{{cite web |url=http://www.ametsoc.org/getpastawards/get_allawards.cfm |title=AMS Awards |publisher=American Meteorological Society |access-date=March 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327112435/http://www.ametsoc.org/getpastawards/get_allawards.cfm |archive-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>

In January 2010, Coleman produced a special report for KUSI-TV, entitled Global Warming: The Other Side, in which he forwards his view on Global Warming as a scam—and lays out what he believes to be evidence of a deliberate manipulation of world temperature data by NASA and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81559212.html |title=Global Warming: The Other Side - Segment 4 |publisher=] - News, Weather and Sports |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20100324025756/http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81559212.html|archivedate = 2010-03-24|location=San Diego, CA |accessdate=2010-01-31 }}</ref>

Critics of Colman’s have questioned his lack of academic credentials, journalism degree, and charge that he has not conducted actual research in the area of climate change. <ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref></ref><ref></ref> <ref>http://icecap.us/images/uploads/JC_comments.doc</ref>

⚫ ==Personal life==
Coleman was born in 1934 in ], ], the fifth child of a college professor and his math teacher wife, Claude and Hazel Coleman. He is married to Linda Coleman, and lives in a retirement community in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo.


==References== ==References==
Line 45: Line 45:


==External links== ==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{IMDb name|0171087}} * {{IMDb name|0171087}}
* * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209053130/http://www.kusi.com/category/195823/colemans-corner |date=February 9, 2014 |title=Coleman's Corner at KUSI }}

{{authority control}}


{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see ]. -->
| NAME =Coleman, John
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION =
| DATE OF BIRTH =1934-10-15
| PLACE OF BIRTH =]
| DATE OF DEATH =
| PLACE OF DEATH =
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, John}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, John}}
]
]
]
] ]
] ]
] ]
] ]
] ]
]
]
]

Latest revision as of 01:08, 29 December 2024

American television weatherman and co-founder of The Weather Channel (1934-2018) For other uses, see John Coleman (disambiguation).

John Coleman
Coleman in 2007
BornJohn Stewart Coleman
(1934-10-15)October 15, 1934
Alpine, Texas, U.S.
DiedJanuary 20, 2018(2018-01-20) (aged 83)
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
Bachelors in Journalism, 1957
Occupation(s)Journalist, television weatherman
Years active1953–2014
SpouseLinda Coleman

John Stewart Coleman (October 15, 1934 – January 20, 2018) was an American television weatherman. Along with Frank Batten, he co-founded The Weather Channel and briefly served as its chief executive officer and president. He retired from broadcasting in 2014 after nearly 61 years, having worked the last 20 years at KUSI-TV in San Diego.

Professional career

Coleman started his career in 1953 at WCIA in Champaign, Illinois, doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called At The Hop while he was a student at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. Coleman was also a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago.

In 1972, Coleman and his stage crew craftsmen at WLS-TV created the first chroma key weather map ever in use.

WLS Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor Fahey Flynn, sportscaster Bill Frink.

Coleman became the original weatherman on the brand-new ABC network morning program, Good Morning America. He stayed seven years with the program, which was anchored by David Hartman and Joan Lunden.

In 1981, he persuaded communications entrepreneur Frank Batten to help establish The Weather Channel, serving as TWC's CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. After being forced out of TWC a year later, Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and then at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, KUSI-TV in San Diego in 1994, in what Coleman fondly calls "his retirement job." Coleman abruptly left KUSI while on vacation in April 2014, with no on-air farewell.

Coleman obtained professional membership status in the American Meteorological Society and was named AMS Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year in 1983. Coleman said that after ten years of attending AMS National Meetings and studying the papers published in the organization's journal, the AMS was driven by political, not scientific, agendas and withdrew.

Views on global warming

Coleman spoke out as a "rejectionis" of global warming in 2007 after watching NBC's "Green is Universal" week, when as a sign of environmental awareness, the studio lights were cut for portions of Sunday Night Football's pre-game and half-time shows. In a 2015 open letter to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he claimed that a causal relationship between rising levels of atmospheric CO2 and rising temperatures had not been shown to exist. He called global warming the "greatest scam in history" and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science. Coleman held a bachelor's degree in journalism and stated in interviews that he has not conducted any scientific research in the area of climate change. Coleman's views contributed to his decision to drop out of the American Meteorological Society.

Personal life

Coleman was born in 1934 in Alpine, Texas, the youngest of five children born to Hazel Coleman, a mathematics teacher, and Claude Coleman, a college professor. Coleman was married twice. He and his first wife had three children before divorcing. Coleman met his second wife, Linda, at a poker table in Viejas Casino and was married to her for eighteen years. In May 2016, John and Linda Coleman moved to Sun City in the Summerlin Community of Las Vegas. Coleman died on January 20, 2018, at his home in Las Vegas.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Stone, Ken (August 14, 2017). "How's the Weatherman? KUSI's John Coleman Plays Retirement Card in Vegas". Times of San Diego.
  2. ^ "John Coleman". KUSI News. Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Rogers, Rich (November 19, 2007). "Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming a 'Scam'". WAGT News. Archived from the original on August 10, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Posner, Jay; Peterson, Karla (April 10, 2014). "Forecast for John Coleman: Retirement". San Diego Union-Tribune.
  5. "Speaker: John Coleman, Weathercaster on KUSI TV in San Diego". APWA San Diego/Imperial Chapter. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  6. ^ "John Coleman, Chicago meteorologist and Weather Channel co-founder, dies at 83". Chicago Sun-Times. Associated Press. January 21, 2018. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  7. ^ Robbins, Gary; Garrick, David (January 22, 2018). "John Coleman, Weather Channel co-founder who doubted climate science, dies at 83". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ "AMS Awards". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  9. Homans, Charles (January 7, 2010). "Hot Air". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  10. Taylor, Jason. "'Global warming the greatest scam in history' claims founder of Weather Channel". Daily Express. London. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  11. "Weather Channel boss calls global warming 'the greatest scam in history'". The Daily Telegraph. London. November 9, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  12. ^ "Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman prefers conspiracies to climate science". The Guardian. November 2, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  13. ^ Samenow, Jason (November 3, 2014). "Why does anyone pay attention to John Coleman, Weather Channel co-founder, on climate change?". The Washington Post.
  14. ^ "San Diego weather icon John Coleman dies". San Diego Union-Tribune. January 21, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  15. "Featured Scientists". WordPress. October 20, 2017.
  16. Hsu, Tiffany (January 21, 2018). "John S. Coleman, Weather Channel Co-Founder, Dies at 83". The New York Times.

External links

Categories: