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Eugene

(62,782 posts)
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 08:04 PM Jan 2018

Weather Channel Co-Founder Who Slammed Climate Change Dies

Source: Associated Press

Weather Channel Co-Founder Who Slammed Climate Change Dies

Jan. 21, 2018, at 7:10 p.m.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — John Coleman, who co-founded The Weather Channel and was the original meteorologist on ABC's "Good Morning America" during a six-decade broadcasting career but who later drew people's anger for his open distrust of climate change, has died. He was 83.

Coleman died Saturday night at home in Las Vegas, said his wife, Linda Coleman, who did not give the cause of his death.

The Texas native got his first TV job while still a student at the University of Illinois. He worked at several local stations in Chicago and the Midwest before joining "GMA" when it launched in 1975, staying with the program for seven years.

He served as CEO of The Weather Channel for about a year after helping launch it in 1981.

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Weather Channel Co-Founder Who Slammed Climate Change Dies (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2018 OP
Another devil dead brucefan Jan 2018 #1
Climate deniers love to mention him. Doodley Jan 2018 #2
He was a lousy weatherman in chicago. The worst. elehhhhna Jan 2018 #3
He was a San Diego weatherman for years and drove me crazy! BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #4

BigmanPigman

(52,358 posts)
4. He was a San Diego weatherman for years and drove me crazy!
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 09:43 PM
Jan 2018

He used to sing and dance in an irritating way.

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