Might be. Coming up, were going to get to the midterms. T minus two days and talk about why network tell advievision ha ignoring the races. Next, one of the biggest crises we face, Climate Change, and the media war over that crisis. Climate deniers, people who believe Climate Change is not happening in any meaningful way are sometimes painted in the media as fringe characters, as kooks. So this might shock you. A man who cofounded the Weather Channel thinks Climate Change is a hoax. His name is john coleman. Before launching the Weather Channel in the early 1980s, he was the original weatherman on Good Morning America and after launching the channel, he was also a local weatherman in new york, chicago, and san diego. Now hes retired, but his recent open letter saying that Climate Change is, quote, not valid, got a lot of attention and landed him in prime time on fox news. So what did the Weather Channel do . It very publicly disavowed him. After all, for those who believe that the climate is changing and fast, this is a life and death matter. I have said before here on reliable sources that i dont think there are two equal sides to clay mat change. The Scientific Consensus is that its real. The debate is over what to do about it. And the press has to be careful about creating this notion of sides. But colemans platform as a cofounder of a channel dedicated to weather is unique and so is the channels declaration that it believes Climate Change is happening. So this morning both players are here, coleman and the ceo of the Weather Channel david kenny. First, let me bring in john coleman in san diego this morning. Thank you for being here. Its nice to be on cnn. Hello to all your viewers. I resent you calling me a denier. That is word meant to put me down. Im a skeptic about Climate Change and i want to make it darn clear, mr. Kenny is not a scientist. I am. Hes the ceo of the Weather Channel now. I was the founder of the Weather Channel, not the cofounder. And im glad you did because i am addicted to the Weather Channel. Hold on just a minute. Im not done. And cnn has taken a very strong position on Global Warming that it is a consensus. Well, there is no consensus in science. Science is about facts, and if you get down to the hard, cold facts, theres no question about it. Climate change is not happening. There is no significant manmade Global Warming now. There hasnt been any in the past, and theres no reason to expect any in the future. Theres a whole lot of baloney and, yes, it has become a big political point of the Democratic Party and part of their platform and i regret its become political instead of scientific but the science is on my side. I dont think well come to a conclusion about the topic right here. I know were not because you wouldnt allow it to happen on cnn, but im happy that i got on the air and got a chance to talk to your viewers. Hello, everybody. There is no Global Warming. What i do wonder is when you see the government, when you see nasa, when you see other institutions say that 97 of climate scientists agree, do you think theyre making it up . What i dont understand is how you square that. Thats a manipulated figure and let me explain it to you. The government puts out about 2. 5 billion directly for Climate Research every year. It only gives that money to scientists who will produce scientific results that support the Global Warming hypothesis of the Democrat Party or position. So they dont have any choice. If youre going to get the money, you got to support their position. Therefore, 97 of the scientific reports published support Global Warming. Why . Because those are the ones the government pays for and thats where the money is. Its real simple. But that doesnt mean its right. That doesnt make it true. That only makes it bought and paid for. The money goes in circles. Im not a scientist. Thats the truth. So please stand back from this issue and let the two sides be on the air. There are 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition that says it is not valid, that my position is correct, and well keep battling, and we will prevail in time, but i dont know if well do it in my lifetime. I do hope viewers are googling the data youre sharing because i think its skewed, i have to say that. I want to no, its not true. I hope you will go to the websites that present the papers that show that none of this alarmism about ice and heat waves and drought, none of it is happening. Is the Weather Channel part of the conspiracy . Well, the Weather Channel has bought into it. As i say it, theyve drunk the koolaid. But so has all the media. Thats no big surprise. Let me read to you what the channel said this week oh, i have read the Weather Channel statement. Let me read it to the viewers then. They put out this statement distancing themselves from you. They said mr. Coleman does have a place in our companys history and we appreciate the contributions that he made more than 30 years ago. However, we want to be clear john coleman is no longer affiliated with our company. How did you feel to see them disavow you in that way . Well, no problem. I mean, you know, thats all accurate. And the statement thats on their website which they reissued this week was written back in 2007. And thats a rather reasonable statement. Its not full of alarmism. Its not full of the sky is falling. Its a pretty reasonable statement. Its not the programming they put on the tv is not reasonable and when they put on their climate geeks, those arent scientists. Those are nuts. You sound like a man disappointed. Theyve never put on a real skeptical scientist. They dont give us any spot on their channel. Thats too bad that they dont. You sound like a man disappointed by the channel that you helped create. Oh, im terribly disappointed. I created a channel to give people their weather, tell them what the weather is now and what its going to be where they live and in their region and keep them posted on the Weather Channel and serve a real purpose, and that channel has been totally distorted and become, strange as it can be. Thank you for being here this morning and sharing your views with us. Well, i thank you for letting me on cnn. I had my say and it was great fun. Mr. Coleman did throw out a lot of assertions there. Many scientists would disagree with him. As he acknowledged, he does not speak for the Weather Channel today. David denny does. Hes the ceo of the Weather Channels Parent Company and he has a very different position on this issue. Now, he was not able to hear my interview with mr. Coleman but he is very familiar with colemans stance on Climate Change. David joins me new from up in maine. Thanks for being here. Good morning, brian. Glad to be here. So i thought it was notable you sent a memo to your whole staff this week and had a Weather Channel statement come out reiterating the companys stance about Climate Change. What do you want people to know about john coleman and his involvement in the Weather Channel in the past . What i want people to know is that the science is pretty clear about Climate Change. Weve had this statement since 2007. Weve been unwavering on it and i think as always we cover the science. I think some people were confused to hear a statement from somebody who was noted as a cofounder of the Weather Channel, which is true. Were grateful that he got it started 32 years ago. But he hasnt been with us in 31 years. So hes not really speaking for the Weather Channel in any way today. Our position is really clear, its scientifically based, and weve been unwavering on it for quite some time now. Are you concerned he or others are using his title as cofounder in order to try to give attention to something that is misleading, thats inaccurate . Listen, im concerned whenever the discussion of Climate Change veers from the science. The science is really clear. And i dont like our brand being associated with something thats not scientifically based. I think we can all be proud of our resumes, but i would prefer people use the credentials they have today, now the credentials of three decades ago. That makes me wonder if youve reached out to him and suggested he not use the Weather Channel. Its a free country, people can speak freely and people can use their resumes and other people put those titles on them. I actually dont think thats a fight worth having. What i care more about is that our viewers come to us, continue to trust us, continue to believe that we present to them a great understanding of the earth and how it works based on science and i care that the scientists of the world continue to partner with us. Do people ever say to you that Climate Change is good for business . Good for the Weather Channel . Because it causes very scary storms that calls people to tune in . Listen, at the end of the day we never like to see a loss of life or a loss of property. Safety is a really important mission. So, you know, i dont think we ever take any joy in serious storms. It is true that there is more drought, more flood, more extreme weather as the climate evolves, and, you know, that actually saddens us. I dont think we ever view it as good for business. David, thanks for being here. I really appreciate it. Glad to be with you, brian. Thank you. Now, i need to take a quick break but were just Getting Started this morning. 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There is a notion some have compared this to the government saying you havent committed a kriment but we might commit a crime at some point in the future so you have to stay locked up or you have to at least say in your home. Its preventative detention. Right. It doesnt make any scientific sense and at a certain point you have to go by science. Juf to go by science, and the signs tells us the big story about ebola is not here. Its in west africa. The real heart of the ebola hot zone. Among the places where the outbreak is really raging is the capital city of sierra leone, freetown. Isha, thank you for being here. Good to be with you, brian. At a cnn event this week you were saying youre an angry black woman because of the coverage of ebola. Tell me why. Quite simply because i think that the coverage out of the u. S. On this Global Health crisis has been wrongheaded. I think there has been disproportionate focus on the handful of cases that have arrived, sprung up in the United States, and not enough focus on the source, the source of this problem, those three worse affected countries of guinea, sierra leone, and liberia where almost 5,000 people have died. These countries are basically on the brink. There are thousands of orphans across these countries. There are people dying of hunger because they cant get out to the farms and all the other issue was quarantines and whatnot. And yet brian, if you watch the coverage coming out of the United States, you would think the u. S. Was under siege. You would think ebola was just around the corner and was about to be an epidemic in our midsts. That is not the case. We know that to be so. Th thankfully because in the United States where i live we have a Robust Public Health care system which im incredibly thankful for. But the fact of the matter is my family lives in sierra leone, my brother, mother, my grandmother and countless over loved ones. I know what is taking place on the ground and somehow thats been lost in the coverage, that devastation, that suffering is not focused on enough in the u. S. Coverage, brian. So it seems to me theres a lack of knowledge. Theres also a lack of empathy for what people in these particularly affected countries are going through. Yeah. I would absolutely agree. I would say in the absence of the information, the absence of News Networks doing their part in shining a light on the source of the problem. Brian, i mean, i just want you to take a moment. I want your viewers to pause and think what would life be like if the country you lived in was locked down for three whole days. Think about the United States. A lock down and everyone in quarantine for three whole days. That happened to my country of sierra leone. There was barely any coverage of that moment. What would you say to the notion that all news is local. People are always going to care about a possible ebola case in a state near them, not in a country far away from them. To the point of all news is local, we are a globalized world, so the issue of borders and boundaries, those are amorphous beings in this age that we live in. So the problems of sierra leone, guinea, and liberia, we have seen so clearly in the last couple weeks with the handful of cases that have sprung up in america. Weve seen that those problems are our problems. Our problems are their problems. We are all interconnected. So in telling the story, it should be told in an interconnected way. What have you seen on the ground in the countries youve been . Have they turned a corner in this fight against this disease . Well, you know, im in nig nigeria right now. Im in nigeria which is a Success Story in the fight against ebola. There have been no new cases of ebola here in over 42 days. Thats an immense Success St