Monday, December 18, 2006
Global Warming - Predictions are fallible
OK. Sarcasm is on.
Based on experience, why would we trust what weathermen say?...
Based on experience, why would we trust what weathermen say?...
Here's another Steven Milloy takedown:
"Consider NOAA’s predictions for the 2006 hurricane season in the context of the manmade global warming hypothesis.
Despite the vast collective expertise of NOAA scientists, immense quantities of atmospheric and oceanic data, and unprecedented computing power, NOAA failed miserably in predicting weather events a mere six months into the future – and reiterated those same ill-conceived predictions at mid-season.
Yet global warming alarmists, including those at NOAA, expect us to unthinkingly buy into their dire forecasts of global warming – predictions that extend 100 years or more into the future. Forecasting global climate change decades into the future can only be described as orders of magnitude more complex than forecasting an imminent, six month-long hurricane season.
And let’s not forget that the mathematical climate models used to forecast future global climate gloom-and-doom don’t come close to matching up with historical climate change. How can we reasonably expect them to be predictors of the future climate change? Is it wise to spend trillions of dollars based on such predictions?"
