19 Facts About James Spann

James Spann is the host of the podcast WeatherBrains which he started in 2006.

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

When James Spann was 7, 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.

In fall 1978, James Spann moved to WSFA in Montgomery as weekend sports anchor and part-time weatherman.

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 returned to television in October 1989 as chief weatherman at Birmingham's WBRC-TV.

James Spann is the chairman and one of the founders of AllWorship.

James Spann is the host of WeatherBrains, a weekly weather podcast and board chairman of the Children's Hospital of Alabama.

James Spann was the 33rd person in America 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 on December 16,2000.

James Spann received two major national awards following his live coverage of the April 2011 tornado 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.

However, in more recent years James Spann has taken a more publicly neutral stance on the topic, refraining from going in-depth when pressed about climate change in more modern interviews.

James Spann asserted in 2007 that it is money from research grants rather than genuine science that fuels support for the global warming hypothesis:.

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.

James Spann is a signatory of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation's "An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming".