John Coleman

John Coleman, who co-founded The Weather Channel and was the original meteorologist on ABC's "Good Morning America" during a six-decade broadcasting career but who later drew people's anger for his open skepticism about climate change being man-made, has died. He was 83. Coleman died Saturday night January 20 2018 at home in Las Vegas, said his wife, Linda Coleman, who did not give the cause of his death. The Texas native got his first TV job while still a student at the University of Illinois. He worked at several local stations in Chicago —including ABC-7 and CBS-2 — and the Midwest before joining "GMA" when it launched in 1975, staying with the program for seven years. He served as CEO of The Weather Channel for about a year after helping launch it in 1981. Coleman went to work at TV stations in New York and in Chicago before landing at KUSI-TV in San Diego, where he spent 20 years as a weatherman before retiring in 2014. Coleman also drew anger during the later years of his career for his doubts that humans caused global warming, which he called a "hoax" and a "scam."