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Meteorologist calls new bureaucracy under the Commerce Dept. an ‘indirect way’ to regulate what people are thinking.
Time after time, the Obama White House has demonstrated a desire to control the message and flow of information, whether it’s issues on health care, the economy, bailouts and the latest – climate science.
With cap-and-trade legislation waiting in the wings that would come at an estimated cost of up to $200 billion, or $1,761 per household, according to the Treasury Department, the federal government recently announced a new service to “help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change.”
But AccuWeather.com’s chief long-range and hurricane forecaster Joe Bastardi, who appeared on the Fox Business Network’s Feb. 9 “Cavuto,” warned there are other implications with the government having an expanded role in climate forecasting. According to Bastardi, it could lead to an effort to shut out other opinions.
“What I’m trying to say is there are a lot of other non-governmental opinions in this debate that have been shut down,” Bastardi said. “So I’m asking myself, well, is it going to be like NOAA? They get to say whatever they want and influence things? And then folks that have other opinions aren’t allowed to say anything about it or are pushed off to the side?”
Bastardi showed where long-range climate models diverge and explained three factors that are causing the earth to cool.
Source: businessandmedia.org