WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Less than a week after penning a letter calling manmade global warming science invalid, meteorologist and Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman joined Fox News host Megyn Kelly to reiterate his disdain for what has long been the consensus among the vast majority of climate scientists.
"There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future," Coleman wrote in a letter on Thursday, last week.
On Monday, this week, he stood by his statements, telling Kelly that climate skeptics like him are being pushed out of the conversation by the mainstream media.
"It's very difficult for anybody to be against it because the media has told the nation over and over again, day after day for 20 years that the oceans are rising, the polar bears are dying, the sea -- the ice is melting, the storms are going to sweep the earth and that we're all gonna die of a heat wave," Coleman said on Fox's The Kelly File Monday night. "I mean, this is an incredible bad, bad science."
Coleman blamed Al Gore for aiding and abetting the spread of what he says are climate science inaccuracies, and also denigrated Gore's scientific training. But proponents of manmade global warming theories have been quick to criticize Coleman's own scientific acumen.
"Coleman is not a scientist of any kind," Ring of Fire Radio commentator Joshua De Leon wrote this week -- likening his experience as a TV weather anchor to being a "toll booth worker or sign spinner."
"Coleman has no scientific credentials to speak of," De Leon added.
