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The whole of this week’s Weatherbell’s Saturday Summary by high profile meteorologist Joe Bastardi of course is excellent, but this week especially the first 4 minutes or so dealing with climate are of particular interest.

In it the veteran meteorologist, who has an unusual talent for making long-range forecasts, brings up some excellent points as the world leaders meet in Paris under the delusion they are going to rescue the planet from a dangerous climate change – a mere fantasy they’ve invested tens of billions to prop up.

First Joe shows an NCEP CFSV2 chart depicting global temps:

NCEP chart, cropped from Weatherbell Saturday Summary.

Bastardi thinks that the NOAA is not being straight with the public and “is playing a little bit of a shell game“, and tells his viewers that claims that the planet is 0.025° warmer than the previous record, based on a questionable proxy reconstruction/adjustment methodology, is over the top.

Bastardi asks, “Why are we trusting proxy reconstructions over the gold standard of trying to initialize temperatures?”

No correlation

On CO2’s linkage to global temperature, Bastardi puts up a chart at the 1:30 mark showing that CO2 hasn’t been at all the climate driver over the earth’s geological history and that there is no correlation. It’s all overblown.

Cooling trend over the past decade

At the 2:17 mark Joes puts up another chart telling us global temperatures have in fact been cooling over the past decade.

NCEP chart, cropped from Weatherbell Saturday Summary.

The above chart clearly shows this year’s El Nino, but that the overall trend is down. Bastardi does say that should the upcoming La Nina-associated temperature fall turn out to be weak, then the warmists may have a point that the globe is at least getting a bit warmer. But the bottom line for Joe is that the globe still is not warming anywhere near as much as the models project, illustrating this with a chart comparing the models to the actual observations at the 3:12 mark:

Dr. Roy Spencer chart, cropped from Weatherbell Saturday Summary.

On government’s attempting to form policy on such “grossly over-warmed” models, Joe says: “That’s insanity.”

Bastardi says the Pope and the governments are seriously misinformed if they think fossil fuels have been bad for us. To illustrate the point, he points up a chart at the 3:30 mark depicting life expectancy versus fossil fuel consumption.

Global Progress chart, cropped from Weatherbell Saturday Summary.

Human life only started to be long and prosperous precisely when fossil fuels began to be exploited. Any technically educated person will have no trouble understanding why, especially when we view the huge variety of beneficial products that are derived from this valuable and hugely plentiful natural resource.

It is truly stunning that there are actually people out there who cannot see this, but yet enjoy their benefits constantly.