Global Warming Greatest Clash In History John Coleman Analysis

Kalee Garza
Mr. Beavers
English 1304
14 January 2016
Opposing Views on Global Warming
In John Coleman’s, “Global Warming Greatest Scam in History!” the author explains his own differing views on global warming and his disgust for the subject. John Coleman is the co-founder of The Weather Channel, and a now retired TV weatherman who clearly expresses that he does not disagree with environmentalism; however, he thinks global warming is all a false lie. His argument bashes scientists who he believes had an environmental and political agenda beginning in the late 1990’s to “discover” global warming and make it a great crisis. According to Coleman, it is his belief that scientists and universities working to prove global warming exists manipulated

He believes that spending that much time in a university type setting only further encourages people to believe the culture that promotes what he calls “single minded culture” that leads people to believe the lies such as global warming (Coleman 2). He further explains and describes that the scientists and researchers are funded by big businesses that have agendas to prove global warming for their own profit and gain. The backing and funding then persuades scientists to come up with research that meets the guidelines to prove global warming claims. Coleman’s main issues are that early research in the 1990’s paved the way for more research and it all was backed by big business rather than unbiased true facts, therefore this is why he concludes that the evidence of global warming is tainted and therefore may not be true. John Coleman presents himself as an assured and confident man with credentials he feels give him the authority to state that global warming is “the greatest scam in history” (Coleman 1) perpetuated by big businesses to make

Certain politicians are hesitant in approving of global warming because we are spending money on something they think we shouldn’t. Coleman’s argument that his father and brother earned their PhD’s and that he was raised in an environment of individuals who thought they knew everything, as well as Universities producing biased research due to being bought by big businesses makes no sense. Funding research can be costly but it is necessary to make advances in any scientific area. If we consider it “wasting money” to do research, then advances in any area would not happen. If businesses could persuade universities to slant or bias research simply by funding them then could we really call it “research”? The definition of research lends itself to being based on scientific facts not biases. Why would anyone waste money to come up with false evidence and ruin universities’ integrity? Universities are not only a place for knowledge, but integrity. Something as serious as global warming that could potentially seriously affect our environment is something that needs to be researched and explored for options to control and/or solve its serious effects, which usually leads to