AccuWeather’s chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a bigger threat than global warming:
“There are so many other problems besides whether we’re going to warm a degree – I’m personally more worried about cooling a degree,” Bastardi said. “For instance, suppose it’s warmed up a degree or a degree and a half over the last century. Is this all there is? In other words, what if it turns around and gets colder a degree or degree and a half, we are in a lot of trouble the other way. So, I think, sort of what Deidra [Imus] says, there are far more pressing problems than whether a trace element essential for the maintenance of life on the planet is going to cause us to warm a little bit.”
Bastardi explained to the Business & Media Institute back in January 2009 that the Russians had been predicting global cooling and he said he believed the Russians view their vast natural gas reserves to be a tactical weapon, demonstrated by their August 2008 invasion into Georgia. In the long run, he warned a mini-Ice Age is coming by the year 2030.
“And I personally don’t believe it’s doing it. I also think we’re going to get our answer in the next 20 or 30 years because if you change the ocean cycles, and we’re doing that now, this happens every 20 or 30 years, the climate of the country was very bad in the 30s, 40s and 50s. We have been in a similar climatic pattern now. If you change it back, which is going to happen, the sun spot cycle, if we don’t start revving things up there, the Russians have been saying since the early 90s look out we’re going into low sun spot activity. Some of them believe they’ll be a mini-Ice Age by 2030 and you increase the volcanism, I tell you what, it’s ice not fire you’re going to be worried about down the road.”
