Tuesday, April 24, 2012

These people think you're stupid: Article in The Atlantic claims that "many climate models" successfully predicted that trace amounts of CO2 would cause climate-related disasters to increase 75% in a decade

How Apocalyptic Thinking Prevents Us from Taking Political Action - Mathew Barrett Gross & Mel Gilles - Politics - The Atlantic

For example, annual climate-related disasters such as droughts, storms, and floods rose dramatically during the last decade, increasing an average 75 percent compared to the 1990s -- just as many climate models predicted they would if global warming were left unchecked. Yet this rise in natural disasters hasn't produced a moment of universal recognition of the dangers of climate change

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"increasing an average 75 percent compared to the 1990s-just as many climate models predicted they would if global warming were left unchecked. Yet this rise in natural disasters hasn't produced a moment of universal recognition of the dangers of climate change."

Of course not, why would they? Anyone can make predictions, and anyone can use bogus climate models to 'support' those predictions. The problem is almost everything has been predicted now, so no matter what climate related event actually transpires, some of those predicitons will be correct. Some predict warmer weather, soem predict colder weather, some predict dryerr, wetter, windier, calmer weather. No matter what happens, they are correct.

Even with a broken clock you can make correct predictions. Based on the results of this broken clock, I predict that sometime tomorrow afternoon it will be 4:33pm. And everyday after that, sometime in the afternoon it will be 4:33pm again. Wow, that was hard.