Who's to blame for weather?

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi says supposed manmade "catastrophic" global warming cannot be blamed for any singular weather event.

Recently Al Gore blamed the catastrophic Myanmar cyclone on global warming. But Bastardi counters that assertion. "No, the Indian Ocean temperatures were near normal," he says. "They were a little bit warmer than normal in the north, cooler than normal in the south – that is not a product of global warming. It's a product of the fact that these poor people live in a poor country in a low delta, and one of the storms finally took off to the northeast," Bastardi contends.
 
The senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com says Philadelphia could be the next potential hurricane disaster along the U.S. East Coast, but again Bastardi maintains that alleged manmade global warming would have nothing to do with it.
 
"Now why would that be? Because we have people damming up lakes in the Delaware River basin for water. These lakes would normally, in a dry spell or wet spell, be lower than what they are," Bastardi explains.
 
If a hurricane would track northwest along the East Coast and hit Wallops Island with a 15-foot storm surge, and that surge met with flooding from dams further up north reaching their capacity, Bastardi believes the Philadelphia area could see major flooding.
 
"But if that happens, is that global warming?" the meteorologist asks. "No! It's because finally a storm took that path. I ask myself all the time why storms haven't taken that path before," Bastardi adds.