Posted on 02/10/2010 10:55:19 AM PST by Sub-Driver
AccuWeather's Bastardi Warns New Federal Climate Service Effort to 'Shut Down' Debate Meteorologist calls new bureaucracy under the Commerce Dept. an 'indirect way' to regulate what people are thinking.
By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 2/10/2010 1:23:58 PM
Time after time, the Obama White House has demonstrated a desire to control the message and flow of information, whether it’s issues on health care, the economy, bailouts and the latest – climate science.
With cap-and-trade legislation waiting in the wings that would come at an estimated cost of up to $200 billion, or $1,761 per household, according to the Treasury Department, the federal government recently announced a new service to “help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change.”
But AccuWeather.com’s chief long-range and hurricane forecaster Joe Bastardi, who appeared on the Fox Business Network’s Feb. 9 “Cavuto,” warned there are other implications with the government having an expanded role in climate forecasting. According to Bastardi, it could lead to an effort to shut out other opinions.
“What I’m trying to say is there are a lot of other non-governmental opinions in this debate that have been shut down,” Bastardi said. “So I’m asking myself, well, is it going to be like NOAA? They get to say whatever they want and influence things? And then folks that have other opinions aren’t allowed to say anything about it or are pushed off to the side?”
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Actually Katrina didn't do much, storm wise, to NO. I well remember the broadcasts from the French Quarter that NO had "dodged the bullet" as Katrina slid East to Mississippi.
The failure of the levys, on the other hand, ...
The failure of he levies is what he was on about. He said the place was a disaster waiting to happen.
That was the Shrimp (Shep) on bourbon street and he was plastered. The storm hit in the exact manner described as a worse case scenario for flooding. While he was drunk on Bourbon, the lower wards were flooding.
The models weren’t designed to show anything but AGW.Bastardi said. “Part of the reason we got this winter forecast right — and again I’ll show you this winter forecast – is I knew that with the Pacific cooling, we are getting back toward those times in the ’60s and ’70s. That’s where winters are going to go. When the Pacific cools, the Atlantic cools, guess what happens? You cool those big bodies of water, you are going to cool the atmosphere around it. The models aren’t capable of handling this.
In a nutshell.
The AGW models have no significant predictive ability; they are merely political tools.
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