Three years ago, in March 2008, at a meeting of the denialist International Conference on Climate Change, John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, said that Al Gore should be sued for fraud. (He also blasted the current Weather Channel for believing in climate change.)
--"Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question," Coleman said. "Since we can't get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, where it was our scientists and their scientists, and all the legal proceedings with the discovery and all their documents from both sides and scientific testimony from both sides, we could finally get a good solid debate on the issue," Coleman said. "I'm confident that the advocates of 'no significant effect from carbon dioxide' would win the case."-- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html He said that he would be joined by 30,000 scientists, apparently referring to the signatories of the long-discredited "Oregon" petition, the vast, vast majority of whom aren't climate scientists. Unsurprisingly, this story was taken seriously by Fox News, but not by real news organizations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ Also unsurprisingly, Coleman has never filed suit -- at least not that I'm aware. Cheers, John John H. Knox Professor of Law Wake Forest University 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27109 (336) 758-7439 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dallas Blaney Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] Gore Lawsuit Good morning, I just gave a presentation about global climate change in my introductory course and one of the students asked me to account for what he said is a lawsuit against Al Gore by 30,000 climate scientists and The Weather Channel. I had not heard of any such lawsuit and am having trouble finding legitimate information about it. Can someone point me to a legitimate source on this issue so I can give my student(s) solid answer? Thank you, Dallas Blaney Colorado State University
