The claim: Video shows The Weather Channel debunk climate change

A Dec. 30, 2022, Facebook video features a segment from an interview CNN's Brian Stelter did with John Coleman, the late co-founder of The Weather Channel, in which Coleman claims the idea of climate change is "baloney."

"There's no question about it: Climate change is not happening," Coleman asserts. "There is no significant man-made global warming now, there hasn't been any in the past, and there's no reason to expect any in the future."

"The Weather Channel debunks 'climate change,'" reads on-screen text featured in the video.

The video was viewed 15,000 times in less than two weeks.

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Our rating: False

The clip does not show footage from The Weather Channel, and Coleman's comments were not endorsed by the channel, according to its former CEO. The Weather Channel acknowledged the reality of climate change at the time Coleman said this, as it does now.

Coleman wasn't affiliated with Weather Channel when he spoke

The clip circulating on Facebook was taken from a Nov. 2, 2014, episode of the CNN talk show "Reliable Sources." During the episode, Stelter, the show's host, interviews Coleman, who left The Weather Channel shortly after its founding in the early 1980s.

Later in the episode, Stelter interviewed David Kenny, who was the CEO of The Weather Channel's then-parent company, The Weather Company. During the...

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