12 Facts About James Spann

James Spann's mother worked as a secretary at Greenville High School, while his father sold lumber.

When James Spann was seven his father left the family, leaving Carolyn to raise him.

James Spann began his broadcast career in Tuscaloosa in 1973 at WTBC radio.

James Spann volunteered many hours following the 1974 Alabama tornadoes in Jasper.

Channel 13 was sold to Times Mirror in 1980 and renamed WVTM-TV, and James Spann was moved to sister station KDFW in Dallas in 1984.

James Spann is the host of WeatherBrains, a weekly weather podcast.

James Spann was the 33rd person in the United States to receive the AMS distinction as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist.

James Spann won an Emmy Award with John Oldshue from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for live coverage of a deadly tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on December 16,2000.

James Spann received two major national awards following his live coverage of the April 2011 Super Outbreak, which claimed over 250 lives, and had over 50 tornadoes.

In January 2007, James Spann gained notoriety as a climate change denier.

James Spann asserts that climate change is naturally caused, as part of the climate's cyclical nature.

James Spann was countering a statement made by Heidi Cullen, a staff meteorologist with The Weather Channel, who had written that those who disagreed with the view that global warming was caused by man-made events should not be given the Seal of Approval by the American Meteorological Society.