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Forecasting Guru Announces: “no scientific basis for forecasting climate”
Watts Up With That ^ | 1/28/09 | Anthony Watts / Jennifer Marohasy

Posted on 01/29/2009 1:33:07 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

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1 posted on 01/29/2009 1:33:08 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter
IPCC “violated 72 scientific principles of forecasting”

I figured the IPCC was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT BAD!

2 posted on 01/29/2009 1:45:58 AM PST by Need4Truth (...the borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. 22:7)
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To: Straight Vermonter; All

This is very interesting, for me.

On our Canadian sister site, a member who is connected with meteorology and who has been fighting this climate change stuff for nearly 20 years ( and getting a lot of grief for it ) has mentioned that in professional circles there is a lot of dissent, growing stronger every day, to the whole “man-made global warming” meme. Or “climate change,” whatever the shibboleth de jour is...

He says it is flying below the radar of the press- because they are firmly on one side, only— but that it is about to break out, big time, into the public sphere.

Stay tuned, it is going to get “interesting...”


3 posted on 01/29/2009 1:52:13 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: backhoe

It can’t happen soon enough.

The amount of Kool-Aide slurping on this issue is incredible.


4 posted on 01/29/2009 2:05:30 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: backhoe

The sooner the better. Even with all the economic upheaval, Australia is still at risk of being lumbered with and emission trading scheme.


5 posted on 01/29/2009 2:19:09 AM PST by Nipfan (The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
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To: Need4Truth
IPCC “violated 72 scientific principles of forecasting”

I figured the IPCC was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT BAD!

72 of 139!

6 posted on 01/29/2009 2:20:14 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
As if facts matter.
From Obama to Pelosi to Hansen, the Church of Man Made Climate Change allows no dissent.
7 posted on 01/29/2009 2:22:25 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

8 posted on 01/29/2009 3:18:46 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaNation: Tax cheat sworn in as Treasury Secretary --- you can't make this stuff up !!!)
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To: FreedomPoster

More than 20 years ago I was acquainted with a grad student who was also employed by Boston University in its climatology department. He guffawed about “global warming” and said it was fundamentally a big scam to get research grants.


9 posted on 01/29/2009 3:25:38 AM PST by angkor
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10 posted on 01/29/2009 3:39:20 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: angkor

“it was fundamentally a big scam to get research grants.”

That has been my contention from the beginning.
There is no grant money for any subject that says
everything is normal, but come up with a contrarian
view, then the money flows like honey.

After that, the politicians grab on to it as a way to tax and control.
Soon it becomes the mother of all snowballing scams,
making even a moron like Albert Goreon an billionaire.


11 posted on 01/29/2009 3:41:01 AM PST by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
In other news, headline AP:

Deadly Storm Coats Nation With Ice, Snow

(Jan. 28) - Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for warmer weather and for utility crews to restring power lines brought down by a storm that killed 23 as it took a snowy, icy journey from the Southern Plains to the East Coast. But with temperatures plunging, utility officials warned that it could be mid-February before electricity is restored to some of the hardest-hit places. The worst of the power failures were in Kentucky, Arkansas and Ohio.

It is truly amazing how these Gorons continue to stick to this "Globull Warming" nonsense. These people are certifiably nuts.....

12 posted on 01/29/2009 3:45:23 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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My mother and my in-laws are without power due to that event. No fun, and it is not supposed to get above freezing until Sunday.


13 posted on 01/29/2009 3:57:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: Thermalseeker

And just a handful of weeks ago, nearly the entire state of New Hampshire and vast swaths of Massachusetts were without power in the wake of another massive ice storm.


14 posted on 01/29/2009 4:12:27 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Can anyone explain what factors have conspired to produce this outbreak of refreshing rationality after twenty years of propaganda drumbeat about global warming?

Prediction - Al Gore will take this to court and demand a re-count!


15 posted on 01/29/2009 4:18:20 AM PST by Senator John Blutarski (The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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Computer modeling was used to create scenarios (i.e., stories) to represent the scientists’ opinions about what might happen. The models were not intended as forecasting models (Trenberth 2007) and they have not been validated for that purpose. Since the publication of our paper, no one has provided evidence to refute our claim that there are no scientific forecasts to support global warming.
All those pretty colors and swirling figures are about as useful as an Xbox 360 game and not nearly as entertaining.
16 posted on 01/29/2009 4:22:28 AM PST by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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Can anyone explain what factors have conspired to produce this outbreak of refreshing rationality after twenty years of propaganda drumbeat about global warming?

Retirement

17 posted on 01/29/2009 4:28:35 AM PST by EVO X
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To: Senator John Blutarski

After listening to the oGre’s meeting on Capitol Hill yesterday, I can say that we’re totally screwed. Everyone there kissed his butt, and treated him as a climatology god. Too many people are either brainwashed or see a personal advantage about this issue. We’re gonna get screwed!


18 posted on 01/29/2009 4:38:06 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing! I'm a doctor, and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Straight Vermonter

GW is a pseudoscientific belief system, belongs on this list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_science

with phrenology, flat earth and crystal healing.


19 posted on 01/29/2009 4:42:54 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (That's American Revolution II, overdue.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
We’re gonna get screwed!

Sooner or later Algore is going to have to stand up and defend his climatological "theology". When he can't (and he most certainly can't defend it) anyone who is associated with him is going to be branded a loon, particularly if the current cooling trend continues...

20 posted on 01/29/2009 4:43:51 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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