OK, So Drop The Climate Forecasting

8 Responses to OK, So Drop The Climate Forecasting

1. Andy Weiss says:

   May 13, 2011 at 12:52 pm

   The winter forecast would not be considered short range, as it goes out 3 months. But it sucked nevertheless. Then, of course there are so many weasel words in their short range forecasts that they can seldom be completely wrong. They shouldn’t be blowing their own horn one way or another.

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2. Andy Weiss says:

   May 13, 2011 at 12:52 pm

   Steve, I didn’t read the caption on the top. Sorry about that.

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3. Latitude says:

   May 13, 2011 at 1:12 pm

   but the MET is tied into global warming…
   …and the biggest part of global warming is forecasting the weather

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   • Daniel Packman says:

     May 13, 2011 at 1:36 pm

     Weather forecasting has very little in common with climate modeling. An average temperature for a date that might be predicted to rise by a degree in 50 years varies by many times that for a given date.

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     • stevengoddard says:

       May 13, 2011 at 1:38 pm

       Why do you say that? Climate models extend weather models by adding additional parameters which vary over time (like atmospheric chemistry.)

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     • Mike Davis says:

       May 13, 2011 at 3:42 pm

       Some folks actually believe the tale that Climate models are NOT related to Weather models! Ignorant fools!

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4. Jimbo says:

   May 13, 2011 at 8:07 pm

   The Met Office are an open joke in the UK. Most people just do the very opposite of what the forecast.

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5. Kirt Griffin says:

   May 14, 2011 at 2:17 pm

   Pirs Corbyn said about the MET’s expensive computer, “It just allows them to get the wrong answer sooner.

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