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Current Events => Political Ammunition => Global Warming, Its Myths and Its Truths => Topic started by: TheSarge on February 10, 2010, 01:35:51 PM

Title: Bastardi Warns New Federal Climate Service Effort to 'Shut Down' Debate
Post by: TheSarge on February 10, 2010, 01:35:51 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?"

Bastardi showed where long-range climate models diverge and explained three factors that are causing the earth to cool.

"Science and Public Policy Institute - take a look at this graph here - since the satellite era, you can see temperatures have been going up," Bastardi continued. "The computer models are up even higher, but we've leveled off in the past 10 or 15 years. The question is, with the natural reversal, the solar activity, the volcanic activity, what I have labeled the ‘Triple Crown of Cooling,' are we simply, in 20 or 30 years, going to be back to where we were 20 or 30 years ago.

And as Dr. William Gray, a hurricane forecaster at Colorado State University, has predicted, Bastardi said changes in the ocean are going to play a significant role in the cooling trend, as he had forecasted.



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/02/10/accuweathers-bastardi-warns-new-federal-climate-service-effort-shut-down-#ixzz0fARYi0eG
Title: Re: Bastardi Warns New Federal Climate Service Effort to 'Shut Down' Debate
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 10, 2010, 02:00:12 PM
All real scientists believe in global warming because only scientists who believe in global warming are real.

Rinse. Repeat.
Title: Re: Bastardi Warns New Federal Climate Service Effort to 'Shut Down' Debate
Post by: TheSarge on February 10, 2010, 02:02:53 PM
All real Liberals believe in global warming because only Liberals who believe in global warming are real.

Rinse. Repeat.

Fixt  :-)