claim: Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax
evidence: The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, by television meteorologist John Coleman ( who, at the time of the channel's founding, had formerly served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America ) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications ( now Landmark Media Enterprises ).