people always want to make this about themselves.
depends on whether you’re predicting the demise of the human race or not. if so, then yes. if not, well, the jury may still be out.
but whichever the case, I’m not needlessly terrifying people to boost my ratings or clicks.
If you are accurate as Joe Bastardi then by all means blow your horn and let everybody know. What’s wrong with that? He has a business to run, I had a business to run back in the day. Fortunately, the science has advanced tremendously since I was stepping-out on the balcony of the studio to stick my finger in the air.
His company issued a pretty reliable forecast before the season started outlining where the most activity would occur. Looks to me like they did a fine job. If you are looking for the exact landfall on the exact date of any tropical system months in advance I suggest you keep looking. We’re not there yet.