Questions for Greta

Reposted from CFACT By Joe Bastardi |August 1st, 2019|Climate Climate Activist Greta Thunberg is planning to sail the North Atlantic on a boat with zero carbon emissions (though made of hydrocarbons) to attend United Nations climate summits in New York and Chile. We’re only six weeks away from the height of the hurricane season.  Relative…

The Battle of New Orleans: Climate-Change Edition

From The Patriot Post Joe Bastardi · Jul. 11, 2019 On Tuesday, Weatherbell.com started covering the threat of flooding in New Orleans, and it’s a very real threat. But a storm like Barry, assuming it makes landfall as far west as we think it will, would not contain the same kind of threat if not…

Countdown to a hurricane lateness record

While Joe Bastardi forecasts a huricane within 72 hours… The system in the eastern atlantic should ramp up rapidly and be a hurricane within 72 hours pic.twitter.com/svQiDidwIi — Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 8, 2013 …the clock is ticking on a satellite era record for the latest ever Atlantic hurricane formation. Atlantic hurricane season – a…

A Reply to Hurricane Sandy Alarmists

A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise. Guest post by Caleb Shaw While I am often humbled, when it comes to predicting the weather, I did correctly predict the fact that, when the inevitable happened, and a hurricane did clobber the East Coast,…

Skeptics on the radio

Harold Ambler – Worldwide Radio Interview Tonight I’m looking forward to joining the hosts of Wise Guys of Weather at 8:10 p.m. EDT this evening to discuss weather, climate, and my book. Hosts Joe Bastardi, Joe D’Aleo, and Alan Lammey of weatherbell.com bring cold hard facts of energy and climate to bear for listeners around…

The Texas centered drought versus 1918, 1956 and 1934

Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, WeatherBell Co-Chief Meteorologist June temperature and precipitation rankings are in. Enlarged. Warmest in Texas, Second warmest in Oklahoma. Enlarged Driest in New Mexico. Fourth driest in Oklahoma. Fifth driest in Texas. Wettest in California. Texas and Oklahoma has felt the brunt of the 14 state drought that…

Bastardi on outdoor grilling, 4th of July, AGW, and all that

Here’s a 4th of July message from Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell regarding this idiotic piece in the NYT. Click the image at left for the story. He’ll be on Fox News tomorrow morning to talk more about it. Then there’s the always dependably irrational Brad Johnson of ThinkProgress.org (you know, the guy that shamelessly and…

Bastardi on learning from the past

Joe publishes an essay in the  State College newspaper which Mann reads looking for anything that might question his hockey stick theory. – Anthony Can America Last? Only If We Use the Lessons of the Past by Joe Bastardi If you knew about the climate and nation’s weather the way I have to, you would…

Bastardi on the non-existent climate-tornado linkage

UPDATE: Graph added below per request from Joe Bastardi. But first, let’s listen to expert on all things public, scientific, and climatic, Rosie O’Donnell From Fox News: Living in an era when pop culture celebrities can assert “expert” opinions on any subject, why wait for science to catch up with pesky facts? If Rosie O’Donnell…

Bastardi: no return of El Niño til 2012

No No to el Nino ( till 2012) By Joe Bastardi (from his WeatherBell blog) I was going to write something about the dreaded back door front and how while it may be 90 at the masters this weekend it may snow in the I-90 corridor in the northeast but then Joe D Aleo sent…

Joe Bastardi on his next big thing

Guest post by Joe Bastardi Well Anthony, here it is, just for the great  folks that go to your wonderful site ( I have made no secret of my love it, so I guess I am being redundant). On March 11th, Weatherbell Analytics announced that Joe D’Aleo and I would be working together to develop…

Where Joe Bastardi landed

I’ve known this for awhile, but couldn’t write about it until today. many people have asked me privately where former AccuWeather lead forecaster would land. The answer is in a new startup, with close associate Joe D’Aleo, first director of meteorology at the Weather Channel. – Anthony Joe Bastardi hired by start-up firm, joins renowned…

Joe Bastardi in Vanity Fair

This is a campy interview by Eric Spitznagel who runs “Awkward question time” at VF, is with our favorite forecaster, Joe Bastardi. Spitznagel was trying to make Joe look like some sort of WWF member (Not the fake wildlife crisis kind, but the fake wrestling kind). Still there’s some funny and serious moments. Here’s a…

Joe Bastardi resigns at Accuweather after 32 years

From Joe Bastardi’s Fan Page at Facebook: Farewell to Joe Bastardi who has left AccuWeather after a distinguished 32-year career. We appreciate Joe’s dedicated service to our clients over these many years and wish him luck with all his endeavors. In addition, a hearty congratulations to two great meteorologists who will both be taking on…

Sea Ice News #31

I’ve watched the hubbub over the AccuWeather video by Joe Bastardi that called NSIDC’s Sea Ice data into question, because it “seemed” to show lower Arctic Sea Ice values than that of JAXA or DMI. Here they all are: JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent -15% or greater – click to enlarge