A victory for the crackpots yesterday, so plan on hearing about it for the next 10 to 12 years.

John Coleman, the crotchety 73-year-old man who two decades ago created the piddling Weather Channel, told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change that the station he founded is now controlled more by finance than benevolence, and that it covers up what he calls "the fraud of global warming." Surely Coleman was indirectly admonishing Heidi Cullen, a pinko ninny currently with The Weather Channel, who in 2006 stated on her blog that meteorologists who doubted human influence on global warming should be decertified.

In the past, Coleman has said that the scientifically accepted idea of harmful climate change due to greenhouse gases is "the greatest scam in history."

After the jump, Coleman's dotage, for all to see!

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