10
Feb

Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi warns of US government shutting out skeptics

AccuWeather.com’s chief long-range and hurricane forecaster Joe Bastardi warned viewers on yesterday’s Fox Business Network of propaganda issues associated with the government expanding their role in climate forecasting. He said it could lead to an effort to shut out other opinions.

Come on Joe, does this excerpt from the government’s new Climate Services Portal at climate.gov sound like propaganda to you?

More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives.

It’s obvious they have an open mind. And being the astute scientists we are, we just fact-checked them too: we stepped out into our “own backyard” and it felt a bit warmer than we’d thought it would be this morning. Also, it has been raining a lot this month–”very heavy downpours.” Sounds like they must be right.

H/T: Newsbusters

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13 Responses to “Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi warns of US government shutting out skeptics”

  1. Interesting story in the Telegraph
    Lords go Lukewarm perhaps ?:
    Lords fear public is losing confidence in climate change science
    link:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7197787/Lords-fear-public-is-losing-confidence-in-climate-change-science.html

    Bit of denying going on though:
    “Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman of the Environment Agency, said “sloppy” emails sent by scientists from the University of East Anglia in a scandal known as “climategate” was being used by sceptics to cast doubt on the whole argument.

    He also said a mistaken claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the Himalayas will melt by 2035, known as “glaciergate”, was being used by critics to suggest that the UN body is not to be trusted.

    “There is no excuse for sloppy scientific work and expression,” he said. “There is a need for rigorous testing of the evidence of climate change and what gets said about climate change.”

  2. bill-tb says:

    Hey what’s wrong with government using propaganda and lies for more taxes? They do it all the time.

    The government under Obama’restore science to it’s proper place’, just set up their new climate propaganda unit for the ignorant and on the front page they put up bogus ice data. What, you going to go to the Arctic to see if it’s true?

  3. Voluptious Hockey Stick says:

    IPCC Head Pachauri Is a Corrupt Pervert

    http://www.larouchepac.com/node/13508

    “What the Times does not say, is that the charges of corruption stem from money received by Pachauri from Reliance Industries, India’s largest private oil and gas conglomerate, owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. Reliance has close links to Pachauri’s TERI research organization, which has, in turn, showered Reliance with awards (for its work on AIDS), and on whose board Ambani sits. In addition, Reliance has just paid to publish a racy, quasi-autobiographical novel by Pachauri, Return to Almora, which chronicles the sexual exploits of a young environmental engineer (Pachauri is in his sixties), on his quest to save the world. At the book launch, the party favors were paid for by BP India, which is also a big sponsor of TERI, according to London’s Sunday Times, which leaked the entire sordid story.”

    India’s largest private oil and gas conglomerate Reliance paid to publish Pachauri’s, Return to Almora,and at the book launch the party favors were paid for by BP India :)

  4. Tom Roe says:

    Sounds like the story in the UK is the same as the story in the USA. The political elites having bought hook-line-and-sinker into the inevitability of doing something very big, are tottering but not down. They cannot comprehend that the monsterous edifice which they constructed has breathed it’s last. Dead on it’s feet, the behemoth’s death rattles register lightly through their Gucci loafers. The sense that history is being made here and across the blogosphere is palpable.

  5. Ms Anthropic says:

    The entire green movement surrounding global warming is one giant black hole and as it unwinds, will have a big negative impact on the real economy and jobs. The vacuous house of climate change is collapsing.

  6. Ray says:

    FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was closed today due to snow in Washington.

  7. Theo Goodwin says:

    I am devastated by the appearance of sea-level rise in my backyard. I live 50 miles from the western sea and 70 miles from the eastern sea, yet there it is in my backyard, the rising sea-level. How did carbon dioxide molecules cause this to happen? Can the government remove sea-level rise from my back yard? What will it cost? Is seal-level rise in all backyards or does the government simply employ stupid writers?

  8. Michele says:

    Thanks, Joe!

    Someone is watching out for us.

  9. Curt says:

    When my grandmother died recently at 105, she was very concerned that global sea level had increased 7 inches during her lifetime…

  10. Steve In Tulsa says:

    Less than 1 degree of warming over the lawst hundred years and people can ‘feel’ it? Those people who can feel it are lying to themselves. And my phone tells me I am 218 feet above sea level. so, yeah, that rising ocean is really scary.

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  12. Arno Arrak says:

    Climategate is only the tip of the iceberg. I have determined from satellite data that the so-called “late twentieth century warming” in the eighties and nineties simply did not exist. NOAA, NASA, and the Met Office all show steady warming through this twenty year period. It is cooked up and my book “What Warming?” shows how it was done. But in the middle of it, in 1988, James Hanson gets up in front of the Senate and testifies that global warming has started and that carbon dioxide is the cause. Actually there was no warming which makes his testimony false. In its place the satellites see only a multi-year temperature oscillation, up and down by half a degree, until the super El Nino of 1998 arrives. That was the start of real warming, but its cause was Indian Ocean overflow, not carbon dioxide in the air. There is much more to this that you can find in my book “What Warming?” available on Amazon.com

  13. ADE says:

    More and more Americans are witnessing climate change in their own back-yards.
    Tax rises,biodiesel instead of food,16 assorted waste bins,wind-generators shedding their blades,a limit of 1000 watts for all your appliances,20 foot fences arround the sea[so you cannot see the actual level],clothes made from coconut fibre,
    Comrades,oops, voters, your government is doing all in its POWER to convert you to watermelons. Green externally but Blood red on the inside.
    Holidays have been extended to 300 days each year[301 in leap years],available work will be shared out between the able bodied,no more that 5 hours a day.
    Bring your wooden furniture to the incinerator and collect your coupons for superior recyced dung furniture.
    Obarma III, World Congress China.