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Bill Nye the Science Guy versus Weather Channel’s Joe Bastardi

Editor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:42:20 +0000

Here’s a segment from The O’Reilly Factor last night where Bill Nye the Science Guy debates Joe Bastardi from the Weather Channel.

I have to say, even though I’m heartened to see some coverage In US Media, and in this case on Fox News, debates here pale in comparison to those found on TV in the UK, where they aren’t as interested in closing having a debate that is merely just a few soundbites and then to commercial.

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

Editor — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:29:55 +0000

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

Worldwide cold not seen since ’70s ice age scare

Editor — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:41:10 +0000

Unfortunately we can’t embed this video of Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi explaining how we have not see this type of cold weather since January 1-10, 1977, when the weather was in an almost identical pattern. And at that time, some of the same people who are now scaring you with global warming, were then scaring you with the impending doom of an oncoming Ice Age. Joe is always entertaining and informative–watch it at the Accuweather site here.

(if anyone has an embeddable video link for this, please pass it along)