…and please, help me make money off of carbon credits, amen.

John Coleman thinks The Weather Channel stinks, and he should know, he started it in 1982:

“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”

I used to watch The Weather Channel all of the time to check out storm systems in the Atlantic that could turn into tropical storms or hurricanes, but now that coverage has been relegated to the last 10 minutes of the hour and I have to suffer through “When Weather Changed History,” or some kind of global warming indoctrination show before I can see a current weather map.

Unless, of course, a system has the potential to turn into a major storm and then it’s expanded, fear mongering coverage, and finally, if The Weather Channel is lucky, you ‘ll get to see Jim Cantore in a yellow rain coat leaning into the wind with stuff blowing at him.

Coleman goes on to talk about suing Al Gore and (thankfully), he talks about carbon credits:

“[I] have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore.”

Let me be clear here, selling carbon credits is a joke. Think about it, if you’re a huge polluting company, or if you like to skip around to international movie award shows in your private jet, you have an out. You can simply buy carbon credits from a company that operates the way it should anyway and thou shalt be absolved.

I feel really bad about flying around in my private jet all week looking for third world babies to adopt, this cross is burning up energy like mad, and did I really need this crown of thorns? I’ll buy some carbon credits and then I’ll feel better about myself.

If people like Al Gore REALLY cared about the global warming, and if C02 is REALLY destroying the earth, then isn’t the REAL SOLUTION requiring ALL OF THE POLLUTERS to pollute less? Or can’t people like Gore (*cough* Senator Harris McDowell *cough*) figure out how to turn that into a money making scheme?

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