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By Robert Bradley Jr. March 1, 2021
“To think that you are smart enough to control nature and you have to force people … to obey? This is the same despotic behavior that we have seen in the worst of tyrants. “
– Joe Bastardi (quoted below)
A recent article in E&E News, “Fringe Weatherman Advised Abbott Ahead of Deadly Texas Storm” (Feb.25, 2021), is the latest marginalization job for a “climate scientist”. Author Scott Walderman begins his play like this:
Days before a historic blizzard crippled his home state, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) sought advice from an unusual source: Joe Bastardi, weather forecaster for Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The hit piece (against Bastardi, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Abbott) goes downhill from there with Ad Hominem.
Here are the Bastardi quotes in Walderman’s piece:
According to Bastardi, the conversation with Abbott was not groundbreaking or controversial. “I said this was a winter version of a Category 5 hurricane,” Bastardi told E&E News.
Bastardi has claimed that carbon dioxide is not the “control button” for the atmosphere. He has said that teaching children about climate science “indoctrinates” them. He has suggested that burning more fossil fuels will benefit the planet by increasing carbon dioxide levels.
On Tuesday, Bastardi said he would like to stress to Cruz and Abbott in future talks that the electricity grid shouldn’t rely as heavily on renewable energy. “Wind and solar energy are additions to the main diet,” he said.
In a post for the Heartland Institute, the advocacy group for climate denial, of which Bastardi is a senior contributor, he wrote last week that people who use extreme weather conditions to justify climate action “reveal a certain type of narcissism.”
“To think you are smart enough to control nature and you have to force people … to obey?” he wrote. “This is the same despotic behavior we’ve seen in the worst of tyrants.”
Scott Walderman ends his piece with a quote from Andrew Rosenberg, Director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists:
“When these people talk to Bastardi,” said Rosenberg, “they may be trying to find aliens who did it, or they might be sunspots.”
At this point in the not-so-big debate, it’s all about healthy bites and PR, with no person or view being given a quarter that challenges the climate orthodoxy of alarmism / forced energy transition.
Mainstream climate misdirection
A key takeaway from the Great Texas Blackout is that weathermen and women are the experts, not climatologists, whose predictions for the warmer winter have proven to be a major distraction.
It should be a warm winter 2020/2021 in Texas, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US winter outlook: cooler north, warmer south with lingering La Nina).
And winters in general should be warmer and less extreme cold events according to climate models. As indicated by Björn Lomborg, all climate models predict fewer cold days and cold nights. He refers to “Future extreme climate changes in connection with the intensity of global warming”. [Science Bulletin (December 30, 2017), where the authors state:
Based on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) daily dataset … under the Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario … [c]In a warmer world, old extremes decrease and warm extremes increase, and cold extremes tend to be more sensitive to global warming than warm ones.
But, but … it’s globally insane, John Kerry and the MSM now insist, a buzzword when global warming predictions lead to anomalies. Lomborg’s tweet deserves the last word:
How is this science? Global warming is being renamed “global madness”. CBS & Kerry wants you to believe that climate change is causing * colder * temperatures too. Convenient, of course, to attribute everything to the climate, but wrong.
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