[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Worst Climate Predictions of 2008

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Worst Climate Predictions of 2008
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1230663849.shtml


   K. C. O'Dea is filling in for Langdon Perry and Chris Baker on KTLK-FM
   this week (5-8 am) and doing a fine job. In Monday's 7 am hour, he
   asked:

     "When we look back at 2008, will this be the year when we can say
     that this man made global warming idea was put to bed?"

   After noting a few examples like the snow in Seattle and early ice on
   Lake Superior, he listed a few climate predictions that went awry,
   from an [1]article by Dennis Avery in the Canada Free Press.
   Excepting:
     * â2008 will be the hottest year in a century." Weâre now well into
       the earthâs third straight harsher winters.
     * "You could potentially sail, kayak or even swim to the North Pole
       by the end of the summer." Soon after this prediction, a huge
       Russian icebreaker got trapped in the thick ice of the Northwest
       Passage for a full week.
     * âAustraliaâs Cities Will Run Out of Drinking Water Due to Global
       Warming.â Australiaâs city reservoirs are amply filled.
     * âHurricane Effects Will Only Get Worse.â [The] number of Atlantic
       hurricanes 2006-2008 has been 22 percent below average, with
       insured losses more than 50 percent below average.
     * âCorals will become increasingly rare on reef systems.â Veteran
       diver Ben Cropp said that in 50 years heâd seen no heat damage to
       the reef at all.
     * No More Skiing? European ski resorts opened a month early [in
       2008], after Switzerland recorded more October snow than ever
       before.

   O'Dea timing is right. It's been 10 years now since the 1976-1998 era
   of warming. Now we're cooling, in stark defiance of all those computer
   models, now "rescheduled" to resume their course in 2015.
   Also since 1998 we have ever more, ever better research and evidence
   that the earth is doing what is always does. Throughout, there remains
   no evidence of significant man made influences in either direction.
   All we've seen from those refusing to consider all that new evidence
   and debunked old evidence is etymological change, from "Global
   Warming" to "Climate Change" to "Green."

References

   1. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/30/the-worst-climate-predictions-of-2008/