Weather forecaster Joe Bastardi provides a couple of long, detailed comments after journalist Brooke Jarvis of Rolling Stone accuses him of saying the #1 most dumb thing ever about global warming

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[Bastardi comment] By the way, talking about deceit. THIS WAS A GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE. that is the game you chose. To then conveniently turn into Climate Change, which is redundant since over the history of the earth, no place on earth has had a constant climate, because of the nature of the planet and its relation to the sun ( ever notice most of the land is in the northern hemisphere, ocean in the south, a continent at the south pole of the earth, a frozen ocean at the north, the seasons, and the changes in feedback at different times of the year, check out MJO phase charts if you wish to see a classic example of that) is merely deceit. No one denies that there is variance or climate, THE ISSUE IS CATASTROPHIC WARMING AND WHEN IT STOPPED you simply decided that if you point out occurrences that people were not able to see as fast before, then you can point out all the wild things that actually have been happening on the planet since time began. But now you get to see them point them out and say see. Classic example hurricanes. Both Irene and Sandy were not major hurricane yet in 1954 and 1955 5 major hurricanes hit the east coast from NC north in a two year period. In 1938 a hurricane drove 15 feet of water in Providence rhode island. The weather you see now is just like the weather in the 1950s, the last time the atlantic was warm while the Pacific was cooling and we are seeing the same things in the 3 true canaries in the coal mine, western Europe, Alaska and the far east where winters first turn colder...

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[Bastardi comment] Oh and by the way, we are going to test this idea with the sun. Assuming as many believe the sunspot cycle is going into a funk, the incoming TSI of a cooling sun will affect the earths temps, but the source region for that wont be co2, it will be the sun, which is the conductor of the orchestra of planetary climate variation, all natural, not man made.

The facts are on my side , not yours, though perhaps I could have stated them better, and simply said there is no way given the massiveness of the factors around it, co2 can do what you say it will do. End of story. Oh except for this, the obvious disconnect with co2 while the oceans control the shooting match...

BROOKE JARVIS

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