13 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Top 10 Science Predictions”

  1. I know I can’t provide link but I remember reading something on LGF once where an environmentalist made some kind of a wacky 6 month prediction. Something about the world ending or we’re all gong to die. That was probably a year or two ago. My how time flies.

  3. I think he missed the one about sailing off the edge of the earth because it’s flat. Oh wait.I forgot that AGW caused the earth to puff out into a sphere like rising dough. Silly me.

  4. I especially like the Einstein one: “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” Eight years later, Einstein wrote his now historic letter to Pres. Roosevelt warning about the German atomic energy program. That letter of course caused Roosevelt to order the starting of the Manhattan Project.

  5. This from Icecap today:
    http://icecap.us/index.php
    The ice caps hold a special place in the cold hearts of the global warming advocates who are all too quick to insist that our ice caps are currently melting at an unprecedented rate. We suspect that they will not be particularly thrilled to learn that a paper has just appeared in Geophysical Research Letters entitled “A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.”
    Further:
    We have covered Antarctica many times in past essays, and despite literally thousands of websites claiming that some calamity is occurring in Antarctica related to global warming, we side with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in this matter. Magazine covers have wonderful pictures of melting of the Antarctic, but IPCC in their 2007 report clearly states “Antarctic sea ice extent continues to show inter-annual variability and localized changes but no statistically significant average trends, consistent with the lack of warming reflected in atmospheric temperatures averaged across the region” (in fact, Antarctic sea ice extent has recently set record highs for both total areal extent as well as total extent anomaly (see here and here)). Furthermore, IPCC tells the world (and we wonder if anyone is listening) “Current global model studies project that the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall.”
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    It appears even the IPCC can sometimes get it right- even if they do come to john-cross-style conclusions, ie, Wrong conclusions, most of the time.

  7. scientists predict an extrodinarily high number of hurricanes with increased intensity in2007 due to GW….Southeastern states experience extreme drought in 2007 due to GW….Major factor causing this drought was the almost unpresidented low level of hurricanes last year which carry significant amounts of moisture into the area. They seem to “want their cake and eat it to”. Might I suggest it appears to be “upside down cake”.

  9. There’s a few more here:
    http://listverse.com/history/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/
    Also, growing into the 1960s I recall some predictions that were made about life in year 2000 (that seemed so far away then):
    – we’d have a Moon base and landed on Mars & Venus and possibly beyond
    – space travel would be routine for anyone
    – flying cars
    – we’d work only 15-20 hours a week (funny, if anything we work even more!)
    – house full of robots to do all the chores
    – nuclear fusion realized
    – cure for cancer found
    Meanwhile the crystal balls missed on some amazing stuff, e.g. the internet
    Well, to err is human.

  10. Kate & co, you have GOT to read this article. It’s an interview of Philip Pullman, author, proselytizing atheist, and now apparently global warming authority:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DRN0LIM204H2NQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/19/eapullman119.xml&page=1
    Some choice quotes:
    “If the polar bears leapt from the pages of my fiction into reality and saw what was happening, they’d eat us. Eat as many of us as quickly as they possibly could. And good luck to them.”
    “One less drastic solution we hear talk of is a tradable carbon ration. If you have unused credit, you can sell to somebody else. I think that’s wrong. We should have a fixed limit and that’s it. This is a crisis as big as war and you couldn’t trade your ration book in the wartime. You were allowed three ounces of butter a week, or whatever, and that was it. And this is what it should be like with carbon. None of this carbon trading. We should have a fixed limit and if you use it all up in October, then tough, you shiver for the rest of the year.”
    Can’t you just feel the love of the dedicated liberal for his fellow man?

  11. this morning the Herald had a story that the Giants Causway was about to be destroyed by global warming, 65 million year old basalt? I say nay nay, it been iced , watered , buried, uncovered many, many, many times before.
    at least the AGW stories have dropped to about 1 per day.

  12. Goes to show that people who pass the time talking about what they think will happen should really be spending more time observing and trying to understand what is actually happening……

  13. Posted by: OMMAG at January 23, 2008 4:37 PM
    “…should really be spending more time observing and trying to understand what is actually happening……”
    No, because that would be science. Since the science is settled that is not really necessary.

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