19 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. So it works as intended then. The goal of weather forecasting is not weather forecasting. It is to predict dire consequences for which there is only one solution. As Instapundit pointed out (I am paraphrasing here) it predicts that in order to save the world we need more government, eat less meat and drive less cars.

    1. The latest version of NOAA’s forecasting app incorporates Aesop’s Precautionary Principle.
      Modeled on The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

    2. My favorite comment about climate models comes from a very sharp and well educated truck driver who posts on various websites under the name of RAH. A while back he posted this comment on https://realclimatescience.com/:

      “Climate model projections are fantasies that climatologists wish were happening in the real world. They’re not reality, they’re climate porn.”

      I couldn’t agree more.

  2. To project “Extreme Weather” requires “Extreme Lying”.
    Just like the rest of the meme.
    I now refuse to buy anything I see advertised on “The Weather Channel”.
    However their fore casts are things of beauty ,especially by the 3rd day.
    They of course are so much more accurate 100 years out.
    For pure comedy they have little competition on TV.

    1. The Weather Channel uses Windows for predictions: They look out of the window and whatever it is, that’s what we are getting. As for their predictions, I find Lark spit and eye of newt to be as effective.

    2. My local leftist Fox News station in the Bay Area, KTVU channel 2 … actually renders their weather maps that illustrate temp’s. in the 80’s deg.F. In BRIGHT RED … as if the entire State is burning from a dragons fire incinerating Kings Landing in a fantasy novel. Yep. temps in the 80’s are FRIGHTENING … RED. Scary RED. Dangerous Red. And temps in the 90’s and 100’s are bright magenta-purple RED like we are all gonna DIEEEE … in a crematorium of planet warming.

      Nevermind that people pay top dollar to vacation in Hawaii … where the temps are almost in the mid 80’s.

      It is all so transparent. All so contrived. All so subliminal. All such bullsh*t. We are being LIED TO by the Warmists.

  3. DuckDuckGo: George Box
    “All models are wrong, but some models are useful.”
    Useful ? Sure, if your purpose is to spread fear.

    1. George Box, incidentally, helped demonstrate that naive forecasts using only past values of whatever you cared to forecast invariably did better than complex models that attempted (shambolically) to model the phenomenon in question. DuckDuckGo (or Google, if you must) “Box-Jenkins method.”

  4. Use a dart board ..blindfolded…Same probability…

    I don’t care…unless you can dial-up the weather you want for real….NOPE

  5. reminds me of the monkey that picks stocks … oh wait a minute … there are several of them. I’ll have to get back to you.

  6. Here is a climate science monkey who wrote a book – The Uninhabitable Earth. Interviewed by GQ.

    https://www.gq.com/story/uninhabitable-earth-david-wallace-wells-interview?utm_source=pocket-newtab

    “We don’t just need transportation systems that are less carbon intensive than the ones that we have now, we need—in relatively short order—to have transportation systems that have no carbon footprint at all.”

    No carbon footprint at all. I’m all ears…

    1. There is one easy method to achieve 0 carbon footprint – and I am sure they have that in mind for most of us.

    2. Correction. No carbon footprint for thee but not for me. There is a huge push to return us back to serfdom.

  7. My wife and I spent 5 years cruising the ocean in our sailboat.
    If you are in the Northern hemisphere the only two things you need to know about weather forecasting:
    Turn you back to the wind. High pressure is to your right, low pressure is to your left.
    Look at your feet. If you are wearing socks, head south.

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