by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As Appearing on InsideSources
Pres. Joe Biden promised to make climate a central organizing principle of his administration. White House climate czar Gina McCarthy has promised to make Biden’s climate policies “irreversible.”
It would be a good time for Biden to reevaluate these promises in the wake of the manmade winter storm catastrophe that just struck Texas.
Although Texas doesn’t often suffer the sort of severe storm that hit on Valentine’s Day weekend, life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Possibly contributing to Texas’ lack of preparedness for severe winter weather was the winter forecast that the federal government had issued for December 2020 through February 2021. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast in October that Texas had a 70 percent chance of having a warmer than normal winter.
The lessons are already beginning to mount: Weather is unpredictable and government forecasters don’t necessarily make it less so. And if government forecasters can be so tragically wrong in such a short-term forecast, how much confidence can we place in its climate predictions that extend decades out to the end of this century?
