Joe *i (born July 18, 1955) is a professional meteorologist and weather forecaster. He is a frequent guest on TV news shows. *i is an outspoken denier of human-induced global warming whose public statements frequently contradict the scientific consensus on climate change.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 His work
• 3 Stance on global warming
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

*i 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 *i 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, *i enjoys bodybuilding, and has won the NABBA American Bodybuilding Championships.

*i worked for AccuWeather from 1978 until February 2011. He joined WeatherBell *ytics LLC as Chief Forecaster in March 2011.

His work

*i'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. He also forecasts for corporate clients. Despite his recent intensified focus on private forecasting, *i frequently appears on cable news channels, such as CNN and Fox News, during storms.

*i produced several weather *ysis videos, including "*i's Big Dog" and "Long Ranger". His Long Ranger video features his thoughts on long-range trends. In addition to his videos, *i contributed to official AccuWeather press releases, such as annual winter forecasts. *i wrote a column that summarized his views in the videos. *i 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."

*i is currently a Chief Forecaster at WeatherBell *ytics LLC. At WeatherBell *ytics he provides frequently updated blog postings and videos on the weather through WeatherBell Premium, as well as services for commercial clients. *i prefers to make definitive, rather than probabilistic, predictions.

Stance on global warming

*i is an outspoken denier of human-induced global warming. He has written a book describing his views, which are sharply at odds with the scientific consensus on the topic.

Among *i's positions that are at odds with the science: he has *erted 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. 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. In 2011, *i 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.

*i *erts that the changes due to carbon dioxide are tiny compared to other factors so it cannot cause global warming. He writes "In the entire geological history of the planet, there has been no known linkage between CO2 and temperatures." *i 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 *i, Fox Business, March 9, 2012.

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

*i and science popularizer Bill Nye have clashed over climate change. In 2010 they debated on Fox TV. In 2015–2016 *i and Nye publicly challenged each other with predictions of mean global surface temperature in the near term.

References

External links

• Joe *i on Twitter
• Facebook page
• Joe *i at IMDb