[Strategerist]

This is a case of bad soldiers in the service of a good king.

Bastardi is a terrible forecaster, himself.

His prediction for this year’s tropical season:

“This year has the chance to be an extreme season,” said Bastardi. “It is certainly much more like 2008 than 2009 as far as the overall threat to the United States’ East and Gulf coasts.”

Bastardi is forecasting seven landfalls. Five will be hurricanes, and two or three of the hurricanes will be major landfalls for the U.S.”

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/25984/joe-bastardi-more-active-2010-1.asp

The irritating thing is that it’s Bastardi that year after year is making extreme forecasts of US hurricane landfalls, yet it’s NOAA (who doesn’t predict US landfalls at all, just total activity) or Bill Gray (who makes non-specific landfall probability forecasts) who get abused for “overhyping” the hurricane season to support global warming - and yet another irritation is that the NOAA scientists who do the seasonal forecast, and Dr. Gray, BOTH believe that increased hurricane activity in recent years has NOTHING to do with Global Warming.

[Paleo Conservative]

Obviously he’s a heretic who must be burned at the stake.

[nutmeg]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

bfl...working on this thread:

It's 'the hottest year on record', as long as you don't take its temperature (Hansen again )

[lexington minuteman 1775]

His name is Basatardi, I am just saying here.../sarcasm on!

[RexBeach]

If I were Joe, I’d change my name.

He’s also a body builder, I hear.

[Zeppo]

Bastardi prefers historical weather reports, which, in his view, paint a more complex climate history than tree-ring haruspices admit.

Give that author five points for using the word "haruspices" in a sentence...

[MichaelP]

climate tends toward equilibrium, not disequilibrium

Bingo!

Mike

[IamConservative]

Bastardi prefers historical weather reports, which, in his view, paint a more complex climate history than tree-ring haruspices admit.

Denier! He's crazy. Who would ever use the weather to study climate. It's the trees man, it's all in the trees.

[Onelifetogive]

Joe Bastardi’s great love is atmospheric science. He says he’s been fascinated by it “since I was a baby. My dad’s a meteorologist...

Sorry Joe, your last name is Itialian for "that's not your real dad."

[Major Matt Mason]

The global warmists have been relatively quiet since their data fudging came to light. But they have been revving up of late, hoping that people will forget that they are proven liars.

[metmom]

Go Joe!!!!

He is so right.

[aruanan]

the answer seems to be “no” if you ask the academics who work in the field.

Should have been: "...the answer seems to be “no” if you ask [some] academics who work in the field [who have so publically committed themselves to AGW that they fear looking like fools to recant now]."

[TigersEye]

Joe Bastardi is great. I started watching his web forecasts long before FOX News discovered him. I’ve been a fan of weather forecasting since the ‘70s when I worked outdoors year ‘round and Joe’s forecasts are the most informed and accurate of any I’ve ever seen. He totally blew away the nonsense idea that Glowbull Warming would increase the number and intensity of hurricanes.