By P Gosselin on 19. February 2021
Many climate policies are based on scenarios generated by models. Depending on what these models churn out, actions and costly regulations get enacted to mitigate the worst consequences. So we hope that the modelers get it right. Unfortunately they are still shooting in the dark. Even short term models are failing miserably. TWC forecast a […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. November 2020
Despite all the money-generating gloomy predictions of sinking islands, we reported in 2013 on how the Maldives was planning to build 30 new luxury hotels for future tourists. The resort island of Landaa Giraavaru (Baa atoll), photo by: Frédéric Ducarme – CC BY-SA 4.0. Underwater in 7 years? We recall how in 2012, the former President of […]
Posted in Sea Levels, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 15. November 2020
Last year Germany’s Potsdam Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño one-year forecasting model, claiming 80% certainty. Today, a year later, its forecast emerges totally wrong and the prestigious institute is left humiliated. Hat-tip: Snowfan In 2019, Germany’s Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño forecasting model, […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 25. July 2020
Image: NASA (public domain) By Die kalte Sonne Do you remember the wild story that cold winters in Central Europe are supposedly a consequence of the Arctic turbo-heating? A great sideshow hypothesis in those years when winters were suddenly colder than expected. A study by Dai & Song 2020 has now brought the idea back to […]
Posted in Arctic, Models, Sea Ice, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 24. June 2020
Nowadays as soon as there’s any hint of some heat in the forecast, the European press immediately jump to holler a “record hot” summer is in the pipeline. Brace yourselves! A total miss For example, just last week The Weather Channel Germany warned of 40°C temperatures for Germany, probably after some model results sniffed out […]
Posted in Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 13. June 2020
On May 26, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a press release warning of “another record-breaking heat season” for the northern hemisphere this summer, along with the potential of the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the health risks of the hot weather. Media outlets picked up the WMO warnings and spread panic stories of mayhem and climate […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. June 2020
So far no signs of another super hot-dry summer for Europe, which media have been alarming about. Veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann tweeted the 45-day projections for Europe. In terms of precipitation, Europe saw drought conditions over the past two summers (2018 and 2019) and climate alarmists claimed this would be the new normal. And […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2019
German site Alles Schall und Rauch (Everything is smoke and mirrors) here reminds us how back in 2004, “leading experts” warned the planet would likely be going down in flames by 2020! Forecast 2004 – Global doomsday by 2020 By Freeman (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Only three more days and the first decade […]
Posted in Alarmism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2019
Seasoned Swiss meteorologist calls out sloppy, click-baiting journalism peddling sensational AccuWeather scorcher summer forecast for Central Europe. Even weirder, AccuWeather is simultaneously predicting near record cold summer for Europe. Prominent Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann recently tweeted his reaction to an AccuWeather seasonal forecast reported by the Swiss online Tagesanzeiger here who warned Europe would be […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 25. May 2019
Again today we are seeing earlier sensational, hysterical alarmist predictions made by “climate scientists” falling to pieces before our eyes. Recall how back in 2012 parts of the USA were seeing drought conditions and so the climate alarmists declared the US climate was entering a “permanent drought” – due to man’s use of fossil fuels. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2019
Yesterday I wrote here how some scientists misrepresent the observed data concerning Greenland ice melt in order to get the alarming results they want. There we see that Greenland has been melting, but recently much more slowly than what we are often led to believe. Looking at the latest Greenland ice volume data from the Danish […]
Posted in Arctic, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2019
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin In December 2000, environment correspondent Paul Brown wrote here at The Guardian that global warming threatened “to create a dust belt around the globe” and that the Sahara had “crossed the Mediterranean” and forced “thousands to migrate as a lethal combination of soil degradation and climate change” turned “parts of […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
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