Thursday, January 02, 2020

Looking back with laughter

Coyote Blog: "Great Moments in Climate Prediction: 2020 Disaster Predicted in 2004."  The short review is that European cities were supposed to be underwater by now and England would be facing a "Siberian" climate.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looking back with laughter at what... Australia?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming

Eric said...

"But the accuracy of five of those forecasts improved enough to match observations when the scientists adjusted a key input to the models: how much climate-changing pollution humans have emitted over the years."

Yes, predicting is easy when you go back and change your original guess.

Anonymous said...

Laughter, indeed...

Roger Bournival said...

You know what would be new and refreshing? One prediction from the Chicken Little 'climate' crowd that actually panned out. I'm pretty sure I'll be dead before that ever happens.

Anonymous said...

"And yet it moves."

https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox_full/public/image_large/Global-Temperature-Chart-529px.png