Who could have predicted such a harsh winter? The Farmers Almanac did, according to a CBS News report from August 2013. The nearly 200-year old publication hit newsstands last summer and predicted that “a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super Bowl is played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey,” and also predicted “a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England.”
It helps not to have an agenda.
That last comment “it helps not to have an agenda.” says it all.
Email probably circulating among the AGW crowd today….ooops one organization or publisher we forgot to harass and threaten last year, make sure it’s on the list for this year.
Obviously the National Energy Board should get/use a copy of the Farmers Almanac instead of listening to the enviro-wackos at Enviroment Canada and NOAA with their predicytions of a “normal” or “above normal” winter forecast.
Ordinary people have been paying through the nose, because of reduced stocks of fuel oil and propane, for home heating this winter because of what EC forecast.
Heads NEED to roll because of it.
Sorry…I forgot the link to the NEB.
http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/clf-nsi/rnrgynfmtn/nrgyrprt/nrgytlk/tlkwntr2013/tlkwntr2013-eng.html
The liberal left prefer lie’s & deceit, it’s a way of life for them.
k99 wrote:
“The liberal left prefer lie’s & deceit, it’s a way of life for them.”
OTOH, it’s a winning strategy for them.
Dystopian Optimist >
True, but only for as far as it takes them. In the end they cannibalize each other.
They never really “Win” so to speak.
“….more accurate…”
Year after year to boot.
Now, think about the money that could have been saved…err…the taxes that could have been reduced.
BTW, these are the same “scientists” that tell us what the weather was like hundreds of years ago (Gorebal Warming alarmists) and often they can’t tell us what it will do in 3 days, let alone the next season.
“In the end they cannibalize each other.”
THIS describes the B.C. NDP.
I bought the FA about two or three years ago. It was 100 percent wrong that year. It was a little embarrassing.
The Champ >
It’s free online.
Since when? Mine was a back breaking 10 dollars + shipping.
And the UK met office wrong again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564358/Could-Met-Office-wrong-Just-floods-report-told-councils-Winter-drier-normal-especially-West-Country.html
The Champ >
At least 2 months in advance anyway.
http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange/AB
It’s not a winning strategy if it causes CWII.
“It helps not to have an agenda.”
Exactly! EC and NOAA use computer models that use make believe data based on “Climate Change” It’s garbage in garbage out.
Farmers’ Almanac calling for a Hurricane off the coast of NC,
mid September 2014.
Better stock up on Plywood and Nails..
Perspective on how 1 + 1 still equals 2 unless you are the IPCC et al
Fifty odd years ago scientists were putting men into outer space using slide rulers to calculate complex orbits, etc.
Fifty years later their brethren in weather and climate forecasting have some of the most advanced computing power at their disposable next to the NSA and nuclear bomb research, along with a multitude of real time data collection points, yet they cannot accurately predict the weather 24 hours out
But they say the science is settled. They really need to go back to school and learn math
I am old enough to have noticed that TV and newspaper weather
casts are at best a crap shoot. Considering that global climate
is who knows, 1,000 times more complex than weather, why should
anyone take them seriously?
In 1955, a Harper’s story predicted a “Coming ice age.”
In 1975, Time magazine carried the same warning.
Al Gore predicted that the entire Arctic ice cap would be
melted by 2013. It is thicker and has expanded by 5-60 percent
over last year.
Robert Malthus and Paul Erlich both predicted the end of the
world due to overpopulation. Both were proven wrong.
Just once, I want to see a climate scientist admit that they
just don’t know, or we don’t have the data to answer the
question.
Of course. Anyone can tell the truth, and reality will back them up. Real power comes when you make up nonsense and get so many people to believe it that everyone else is afraid not to go along pretending they believe it, too.
The Tooner >
Precisely –
“How many fingers am I holding up Winston”?
“How can I see anything but four, two plus two equals four?” – Winston
“Yes, sometimes two plus two is four. But sometimes it’s five or even three. Sometimes it’s all of those at the same time.” – The State
My grandfather, a farmer, used to predict a harsh or mild winter based on the thickness the local deer’s hair and how early the birds flew south. Definitely not scientific but, even if it was by pure chance, he was likely more accurate than the billion dollar computer models. The models are a reflections of the programmers bias and possibly bad data. And, really, how could the models be accurate when, even if the won’t admit it, the major climate drivers and how they continuously act and react with each other are a mystery not yet solved. Tuning the models to the past and then doing a linear extrapolation into the future is a poor substitute for actually understanding how the climate works.
Leonard:
Go to climate etc. by Dr. Judith Curry. Bonafide serious climate scientist. Read her stuff on the uncertainty monster. Also see Dr. John Christy, Dr. Roy Spencer, etc., etc.. There are a lot of climate scientists who are saying they just don’t know or they don’t have an answer or things are OK. That doesn’t sell soap, so it doesn’t get into the papers and it doesn’t give politicians an excuse for their crap emergency planning.
“Just once, I want to see a climate scientist admit that they just don’t know, or we don’t have the data to answer the question.”
Not going to happened even climate scientists have mortgages to pay and wives to keep, and kids to put through college. Though they let you believe that the sole motivation is to save the planet and for the betterment of mankind with the exemption of the uneducated maggots that disagree with them the chosen cast.
Weather beetles are the ticket. I have them for sale – twenty bucks a pair (you need three pairs).
John E: I will add to my reading list!
In the public arena, a definition that generated wide agreement was that advocacy(AGW) is attempting to influence a specific outcome, to tell an external stakeholder,
“This is what you should do!” It is a deliberate, purposeful public expression of an opinion or point of view.
In this understanding, it is using one’s scientific position and expertise to accomplish a specific policy goal,
Dr. Judith Curry.
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We need her times ten thousand..
Even if AGW were true (and it ain’t), who cares? Are we to stop burning stuff and freeze?
The left has won, and the fact that our rulers are even giving attention to this and other issues is proof.
Western civilization is going down, and I only hope Russia steps in to fill the void, otherwise it’s China or Islam.