Joe Bastardi is a fully trained, veteran meteorologist. He knows all the things most meteorologists know, has all the skills in weather prediction most meteorologists have. Like all meteorologists, he uses mathematical models, into which data about current conditions are entered, to predict weather for anywhere from a few hours to a week in advance. But there’s something that sets Joe apart from the vast majority of meteorologists. Joe has a passion for weather history. And that passion makes him better at forecasting weather for more than a week in advance. He’s made a specialty of studying how local, regional, continental, and even global weather conditions have—in decades and centuries past—played out over periods not just of a week, or a few weeks, but months. His long experience enables him to understand two things: first, that weather predictions lose precision—become increasingly uncertain—the farther they go into the future; and second, that nonetheless a deep and thorough knowledge of the past enables a tolerably accurate prediction of weather in the future. Joe makes his living by providing that longer-term forecasting to those individuals and businesses whose livelihood hinges on having a better-than-guesswork foresight of weather. Unlike academic climate scientists, the accuracy of whose predictions is largely irrelevant to their professional success, Joe Bastardi’s livelihood as Chief Forecaster of WeatherBELL Analytics depends solidly on the reliability of his forecasts. He is, in short, one of the world’s best. Joe brings all his vast knowledge of past weather to bear in his brand new book The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate Wars. Joe let me read it in advance. It’s a stunner! In 14 short, clear, convincing chapters, Joe confronts every claim of the climate-change alarmist movement that human activity is driving hitherto unknown weather extremes and shows it to be false. Megadroughts? Nothing new. Tornadoes? Business as usual. Gargantuan floods? If you know your weather history, you yawn. Likewise with hurricanes and “global weirding.” And the granddaddy of all the crises, global average temperature rise? The earth has been there, done that time after time, with no disastrous effects. Climate alarmists have made all these and more weapons in their campaign to gain control of the world’s energy policy and force “sustainable development”—an oxymoron if ever there was one!—on everyone. The consequence if they succeed? Lost liberty, lost prosperity, lost human flourishing because of skyrocketing costs for dwindling amounts of unreliable energy. Joe also explains how the climate alarmists managed to weaponize climate models, climatological academia, and the globalist political class. He shows how they allied themselves with opportunistic politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations to exploit the global Coronavirus pandemic, making it one more excuse to adopt their agendas. Reading The Weaponization of Weather will equip you to understand the battle lines in the war to defend freedom and how to, as he puts it in chapter 14, “de-weaponize the real battlefield.”
