Bastardi and Global Warming



                      Joe Bastardi on AgriTalk Radio discusses global warming.

Joe Bastardi formely of Accuweather was a guest commentator on Neil Cavuto’s business wrap up show on Fox News. This is a smart guy. He has been a critic of global warming nut cases for the past several years. His comments are particularly important in light of Barack Obama’s coming assault on fossil fuels with attempted dictates through the EPA.

Mr. Bastardi was frank. There is no global warming. Global temperatures have evened out and have actually gone down the past ten years. Contrary to what is being reported on the news, the amount of oceanic ice is higher now than the past fifty years, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Yes…we have had draught in the United States and very warm summers, but it’s not global warming. It’s due to a cooling of the Pacific Ocean as a result of decreased world temperatures….and that is not unusual. He also commented that the temperatures in the United States account for about 2% of the makeup of global temperatures. The temperatures in Europe and Asia have been positively frigid. The news media just won’t report it.

He noted the amount of carbon in the atmosphere as the result of human activity is small almost to the point of irrelevance. While I can’t remember the exact statistic, it is something like 4% of the total carbon makeup of the atmosphere and is so irrelevant it can’t possibly have any effect on global temperatures.

Unfortunately, global warming has become like a religion. The facts are irrelevant. We have been told by the media that all normal climate variations are now a result of carbon emissions. Global warming causes the temperatures to go up. Global warming causes the temperatures go down. Bastardi said its like both sides of a war at the same time. It is either one or the other.

Even scarier are the made up statistics. From time to time the media splashes graphs across the screen showing global temperatures rising. But is has become clear to me that the media has templates of news, and the only report the news that fits the templates. Now they even make the news up. It doesn’t take much individual research on Google to debunk a whole lot of stuff one hears on television and reads in the New York Times.

Global warming is a myth being used by leftist thugs to as a mechanism to tax rich nations and redistribute the wealth to poorer nations often run by dictators. There is no other financial mechanism outside of a worldwide income tax to accomplish that goal. But a hidden carbon tax rooted in saving the environment…that is one that can be sold.

I keep writing in all of my columns that America needs to wake up as to who these people are and what they are trying to do. Sooner or later the truth will prevail. I just hope it is not too late.