{"id":5187,"date":"2012-08-16T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/an-actual-weatherman-debunks-noaa-claims\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:58:59","slug":"an-actual-weatherman-debunks-noaa-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/an-actual-weatherman-debunks-noaa-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"An Actual Weatherman Debunks NOAA Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV Weatherman <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Bastardi\">Joe Bastardi<\/a>, best known for his <strong>AccuWeather<\/strong> reports, has penned an article at <strong>The Patriot Post<\/strong> dealing with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/14439\">Data Deception<\/a>.&#8221; Joe starts out with a few links to debunk NOAA&#8217;s assertion that July, 2012 was the hottest July on record, which of course is more of NOAA and NASA&#8217;s chronic misinformation. Joe then continues with these thoughts on current conditions and how the <em>gullible media<\/em> stokes the non-existent fire with their brand of Chicken Little hysteria:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/best-name-evah.jpg' alt='best-name-evah.jpg' width='150' class='right' \/>It is true that it is very warm off the Northeast Coast, which is part of the reason I am so concerned that like the 1950s, the northeast is vulnerable to hurricane landfalls. However, it&#8217;s very cold off the West Coast. That should be relevant also when talking about how warm the waters are off our coasts. (It&#8217;s part of the cold cycle of the Pacific we have entered.)<\/p>\n<p>One can read the debunking [<a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/14439\">at this link<\/a>], but I wish to make a few other points. There seems to be a common thread with people who believe their idea of absolute truth means they can say and do whatever they want to get to that truth. <strong>The result is a series of loud announcements that grab the attention of a gullible media, and when debunked, do not have near the coverage as the original pronouncement.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/14439\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Weatherman Joe Bastardi, best known for his AccuWeather reports, has penned an article at The Patriot Post dealing with &#8220;Data Deception.&#8221; Joe starts out with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-media","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}