Joe Bastardi

Bastardi was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He spent his childhood moving frequently, first to Texas in 1960, then to Somers Point, New Jersey in 1965. He enrolled at Penn State University, where he was a member of the varsity wrestling team. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in meteorology in 1978. In 1992 Bastardi married Jessica Jane Strunck, also a Penn State graduate. They have a son Garrett (born 1996) and a daughter Jessica (born 1998). In his free time, Bastardi enjoys bodybuilding, and has won the NABBA American Bodybuilding Championships.{{cite web | url=http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/news-bio.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=bastardi | title=Joe Bastardi (biography) | publisher=AccuWeather.com | access-date=August 11, 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821100016/http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/news-bio.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=bastardi | archive-date=August 21, 2011 }}

Bastardi worked for AccuWeather from 1978 until February 2011.{{cite press release | url=http://www.accuweather.com/press.asp?entry=46119 | title=AccuWeather Congratulates Paul Pastelok as New Leader of Long-Range Forecasting Team | publisher=AccuWeather Incorporated | date=February 21, 2011 | access-date=August 11, 2011}} He joined WeatherBell Analytics LLC as Chief Forecaster in March 2011.{{cite web | url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2011/03/joe_bastardi_hired_by_start-up.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630205925/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2011/03/joe_bastardi_hired_by_start-up.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 30, 2012 | title=Joe Bastardi hired by start-up firm WeatherBell | publisher=Washington Post | work=Capital Weather Gang | date=March 11, 2011 | access-date=August 11, 2011 | last=Samenow | first=Jason}}

Bastardi's forecasts were previously offered free to the public on AccuWeather's main site. However, in the early 2000s, AccuWeather launched its "professional site," and his forecasts were made available to paying subscribers only, up until his departure from AccuWeather in 2011. Despite his recent focus on private forecasting, Bastardi occasionally appears on cable news channels, such as CNN and Fox News.

Bastardi produced several weather analysis videos, including "Bastardi's Big Dog" and "Long Ranger". His Long Ranger video features his thoughts on long-range trends. In addition to his videos, Bastardi contributed to official AccuWeather press releases, such as annual winter forecasts.{{cite web | url=http://www.usigcorp.com/bloomberg/natural-gas-10-18-06.html | title=Natural Gas Gains on Expectations Early Cold Will Boost Demand | publisher=Bloomberg News | date=October 18, 2006 | access-date=August 11, 2011 | last=Smith | first=Geoffrey | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175641/http://www.usigcorp.com/bloomberg/natural-gas-10-18-06.html | archive-date=July 17, 2011 }} Bastardi wrote a column that summarized his views in the videos. Bastardi sometimes contributed columns several times a day when a storm is approaching. He maintains that he has not taken a day off since 2002, including "Christmas and Easter."{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071111/NEWS/711110460 | title=Hurricane forecasts are hard. Bad ones are even harder | work=Herald Tribune | date=November 11, 2007 | access-date=August 11, 2011 | last=Scott | first=Anna |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719141930/http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071111/NEWS/711110460 |archive-date=2010-07-19 |url-status=dead }}

{{asof|2022|10|}} Bastardi is currently a Chief Forecaster at WeatherBELL Analytics LLC.{{cite web |url=https://www.weatherbell.com/#team |title=WeatherBELL Team | publisher=WeatherBELL Analytics | access-date=October 31, 2022}} At WeatherBELL Analytics he provides frequently updated blog postings and videos on the weather through WeatherBELL Premium, as well as services for commercial clients.{{cite web | url=http://www.weatherbell.com/premium/ | title=WeatherBELL Premium | publisher=WeatherBELL Analytics | access-date=November 22, 2012}} Bastardi prefers to make definitive, rather than probabilistic, predictions.{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2247966020070122 | title=Muscled meteorologist sees Mother Nature as a foe | date=January 22, 2007 | work=Reuters | access-date=August 11, 2011 | last=Campbell | first=Robert}}

Bastardi is an outspoken denier of human-induced global warming.{{Cite news |last=Waldman |first=Scott |date=2021-02-25 |title=Fringe weatherman advised Abbott before deadly Texas storm |url=https://www.eenews.net/articles/fringe-weatherman-advised-abbott-before-deadly-texas-storm/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |work=E&E News |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last=Shaffer |first=Matthew |title=Bastardi's Wager: A meteorologist has a challenge for climate scientists |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/257040/bastardis-wager-matthew-shaffer |publisher=National Review Online |date=January 14, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130222801/https://www.nationalreview.com/article/257040/bastardis-wager-matthew-shaffer |archive-date=January 30, 2016}} He has written books describing his views,{{cite book |first=Joe |last=Bastardi |title=The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won't Hear From Al Gore--And Others |year=2018 |edition=2 |publisher=Create Space |isbn=978-1984371409 }}{{cite book |first1=Joe |last1=Bastardi |first2=Jordan |last2=Payne |year=2020 |title=The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War |isbn=978-1662903656 |publisher=Gatekeeper Press}} which are sharply at odds with the scientific consensus on the topic.{{cite web |last1=Fong |first1=Jocelyn |last2=Theel |first2=Shauna |title=Why Is Fox Going To Joe Bastardi For Climate Change Analysis? |website=Media Matters for America |url=http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/08/17/why-is-fox-going-to-joe-bastardi-for-climate-ch/183022 |date=August 17, 2011 |access-date=April 15, 2013}}

Among Bastardi's positions that are at odds with the science: he has asserted that the world was warmer in the 1930s than today, that the human contribution of carbon dioxide is too small to have any effect, and that warming is caused by sunspots and exchange with warmer oceans.{{cite episode |title=Climate Change Myths: Separating Fact from Fiction |url=http://video.foxnews.com/v/1096489463001/climate-change-myths-separating-fact-from-fiction/?playlist_id=163197 |series=Fox & Friends Weekend |network=Fox News Channel |airdate=August 6, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2011}} He argues in his columns that extreme weather events occur naturally and that there is not enough evidence to state that such events are unusual.{{cite episode |series=Larry King Live |title=Massive Floods Hit the Northeast; Interview with Judge Chuck Weller |airdate=June 28, 2006 |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/28/lkl.01.html |network=CNN |access-date=August 11, 2011}} In 2011, Bastardi wrote that, as he had predicted three years earlier, global average temperature was falling, and by 2030 would return to levels seen in the late 1970s due to the "triple-crown of cooling" comprising oceanic temperature cycles, solar radiation cycles, and volcanic activity.{{cite web |last=Bastardi |first=Joe |title=Can America Last? Only If We Use the Lessons of the Past |url=http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/can-america-last-only-if-we-use-the-lessons-of-the-past-792940/ |date=June 28, 2011 |publisher=Statecollege.com |access-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175823/http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/can-america-last-only-if-we-use-the-lessons-of-the-past-792940/ |url-status=dead }}

Bastardi asserts that the changes due to carbon dioxide are tiny compared to other factors so it cannot cause global warming.Bastardi, The Climate Chronicles, pp. 22–23 He writes "In the entire geological history of the planet, there has been no known linkage between {{CO2}} and temperatures."Bastardi, The Climate Chronicles, p. 27 Bastardi also states that carbon dioxide cannot cause global warming because this would violate the first law of thermodynamics. He has further explained:

{{CO2}} cannot cause global warming. I'll tell you why. It doesn't mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its specific gravity is 1 1/2 times that of the rest of the atmosphere. It heats and cools much quicker. Its radiative processes are much different. So it cannot -- it literally cannot cause global warming. --- Joe Bastardi, Fox Business, March 9, 2012.{{cite web |last=Fong |first=Jocelyn |url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/09/fox-news-science-again/186029 |title=Fox News Science, Again |publisher=Media Matters for America |date=March 9, 2012}}

Bastardi is a signatory to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, which asserts "there is no convincing evidence that {{CO2}} emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change."{{cite press release |title=Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change |url=http://heartland.org/press-releases/2008/03/04/new-york-global-warming-conference-considers-manhattan-declaration |date=March 4, 2008 |publisher=The Heartland Institute |access-date=2013-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908002729/https://heartland.org/press-releases/2008/03/04/new-york-global-warming-conference-considers-manhattan-declaration |archive-date=2012-09-08 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Climate experts who signed the Manhattan Declaration |url=http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66 |publisher=International Climate Science Coalition |access-date=2013-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529040140/https://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66 |archive-date=2013-05-29 |url-status=dead}}

Physicist Richard A. Muller states that Bastardi's explanation of {{CO2}} is "completely wrong" and "even skeptics of global warming, if they know physics, would disagree with him."

Bastardi and science popularizer Bill Nye have clashed over climate change. In 2010 they debated on Fox TV.{{cite news | url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/bill-nye-the-science-guy-and-accuweather-meteorologist-joe-bastardi-debate-global-warming/ | title=Bill Nye the Science Guy and AccuWeather Meteorologist Joe Bastardi Debate Global Warming | work=Fox News | date=February 23, 2010 | access-date=April 26, 2016}} In 2015–2016 Bastardi and Nye publicly challenged each other with predictions of mean global surface temperature in the near term.{{cite web |url=https://time.com/4301258/bill-nye-sarah-palin-climate-change-bet/ |title=Bill Nye Made a $20,000 Bet With a Climate Change Denier |publisher=Time |date=April 20, 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/bill-nye-made-20-000-152722348.html |title=Bill Nye Made a $20,000 Bet to Shut Up Climate Change Deniers |publisher=Yahoo! |date=April 22, 2016}}{{cite web | url=http://patriotpost.us/opinion/38793 | title=Some Questions for Bill Nye Six Years After Our 'O'Reilly Factor' Debate | publisher=Patriot Post | date=November 9, 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016 | last=Bastardi | first=Joe}}{{cite video |title=Bill Nye 2016 Forecast Challenge |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4bDk-pPgbs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/C4bDk-pPgbs |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=Star Talk Radio |date=April 19, 2016 |access-date=April 18, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

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