December 22, 2001

AccuWeather’s
*******i debunks global warming
causing cold weather myth,
warns of severe 2011 drought

By Jeff Poor - The Daily Caller

Much of the United States and Europe is suffering through extreme
wintery weather conditions. But what is causing it?

Some have blamed global warming, specifically the “Arctic paradox.”
However, AccuWeather’s chief hurricane and long-range forecaster Joe
*******i told the Fox Business Network on Tuesday you can chalk it up
to three things – oceans, sunspots and volcanos.

“A few years ago, about why we have to start looking for more and
more
of this [cold weather],” *******i said. “It’s called the triple crown
of cooling – the natural reversal of the oceans cycles. Three years
ago the Pacific went into the cold state. Solar activity, very low
sunspot activity and volcanic activity, not the kind you see in the
tropics but the kind we had in the Arctic regions a couple of winters
ago — and this is something that could be causing a return to for
instance, the times of the Victorian era when they used to have ice
fairs in the early-1800s around Christmastime on the Thames and
you’re
seeing that type of thing go on.”

As for those who are blaming global warming, *******i said that
theory
was childish and presented instead the possibility of long-term
global
cooling.

“Well, I’ve been saying what I believe is going on is this is the big
debate between the natural cycles and the forces of AGW
[anthropogenic
global warming] – by the way, these folks claiming that global
warming
is causing severe cold is like the kid on the playground who doesn’t
get his way and takes his ball home.

The fact of the matter is the forecast that was made by this
forecaster three years ago that we we’re going to start seeing these
things because of this and it opens up the big debate – are the
natural cycles taking over and are we going to see cooling over the
next 20 to 30 years? You see, we started measuring temperatures with
satellite at the end of the last cold cycle in the Pacific. We had
nothing but warm in the Pacific and warm in the Atlantic. What’s
going
to happen to the temperatures if the oceans are warm? Now that
they’re
cooling let’s see what’s going to happens in the next 20 to 30
years.”

He said that the unseasonably cold winter is something that could be
predicted and told viewers not to just blame global warming.

“This is predictable if you study cycles, if you study climatology,”
*******i said. “And don’t just say everything is global warming.”

But, *******i also warned of a drought that will in cause higher
commodity prices.

“I think the southern plains of the United States are starting evolve
a drought now,” *******i said. “This dryness that you’re seeing in
Texas I think will evolve into spring and summer time and Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas into the lower Mississippi valley looked to me to
be very dry this upcoming summer and nothing like crazy weather. It
is
the pattern and what the pattern dictates.”

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