“World renowned climate expert” Peter Wadhams predicted Arctic ice would be gone ten years ago, and then in 2015, but has graciously granted the ice yet another decade. He also believes skeptics are murdering climate scientists.
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In 2001, Wadhams predicted the Arctic would be ice free within a decade.
Wadhams later pushed the date back to 2015.
“It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won’t be any ice in the Arctic in the summer,”
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Arctic sea ice ‘to melt by 2015’ – Telegraph
Wadhams also believes climate skeptics are assassinating climate scientists.
Being paranoid, incompetent and dishonest makes you a world renowned climate expert. But telling the truth gets you viciously and relentlessly attacked by the left.
Being paranoid, incompetent and dishonest makes you a world renowned climate expert.
You forgot to mention Wadhams being an angry beaver because the IPCC had the audacity to make a prediction that was not in line with his pet fantasy. Basically being truly unhinged is what qualifies one to be a climate expert.
Climanumerologists, is there anything that they don’t know?
“I see the summer ice disappearing by the early 2030s”
(peter wedham in 2025)
“I can see the summer ice disappearing by the early 2040s”
(peter wedham in 2035)
“I can not seeing me stop predicting BS until i don’t get punished.Oh and btw- did i told you that arctic ice will disappear by the early 2050s ?”
(peter wedham in 2045)
Mr Wedham should do some research about Arcancide/Clinton Bodycount
if he is into assassination conspiracies as those numbers are much much higher
than the ones about a huge horde of climate scientists.
” who has been studying the Arctic Ice for decades.” Obviously, at this melt rate, Wadhams will be OK to receive his pension before that happens.
‘… who has been watching Mama Gaia debunk his junk-science predictions for decades.”
There. Fixed it.
I read up Gile’s death. She was cycling through a busy intersection and seems to have collided with a truck turning left. The truck’s left turn signal was on and apparently there was a caution beep from the truck as well.
Don’t see how this was an assassination attempt. More alarmist scare tactics.
Many Boulder cyclists ride like they have a death wish. Clearly an assassination.
Boulder pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders and scooter riders are conditioned to believe that it is the car and truck drivers’ responsibility to look out for them.
And when they get into their Subarus and Audis, they use social media to notify the world that they are not responsible for their larger machines, either.
Peter Wadham just wants to be debunked to get publicity or something. What is the point of these forecasts or prophecies that never come true?
What I learned from watching Phil and Griff here (while trying to avoid them most of the time) is that they are language adepts. I thought that observation was very interesting and gave me some insight about how to read pro-CAGW articles.
The first thing I do now, before looking any any part of any article is to look for theHINGE WORDS like: “if” “could” possibly” “might” “should” “suggest” …. the reason I call them “hinge words” is because they provide an author a means to bring together two disparate subjects. These are usually not in the headline. Example:
Headline: Leaning Tower of Pisa to go way of Arctic Ice.
Sub-heading: The Leaning Tower of Pisa’s rate of inclination is increasing which research suggests has an unequivocal link to Climate Change.
My naiver self might have spent 20 minutes or so trying parse the story to get a better understanding of what is going on, as it triggered my emotions about losing an iconic cultural landmark.
Now, before getting into any of the subject material, I try to spot the HINGE WORD(s) and this saves me a lot of time. So, instead of getting emotionally involved with the subject matter, I turn it into an exercise of trying to stop the “hidden qualifiers”. A skillful author will cleverly obfuscate them, whereas they will be more apparent from a hack author.
Anyway, try it yourselves… it definitely works and adds a new dimension to reading articles like the ones Tony posted above.
HINGE WORDS like: “if” “could” possibly” “might” “should” “suggest”
I call them weasel words.
And those are the same people that say that we are paranoid?
Does he even know what a spiral is?
Is it spiralling in, only to disappear up his own fundament, or spiralling out to infinity?
Time for a picture of that submarine at the North Pole, USS Skate in 1958. On the ice free surface.
Professor Wadhams may not have been accurate in his timing for the end of summer sea ice in the Arctic, but he knows a hell of a lot more than any of those who have commented here about the subject and the trajectory of summer sea ice there. It is toward disappearance if we do not address Climate Warming. It’s called prudence to take heed. It’s called being conservative, as in conserve the Earth and its ecosystem health that supports us, so we have a future. Mocking those who have been and are documenting the threats is not very smart.
Is there a school where clowns like you are trained?
LLS, what do we do about those pesky tides? And can’t we get that Sun to rise and set the same time everyday? It is so annoying when it rises too early or sets too late.
Thank God we have people like you to lead the way against wind mills.
Regardless of how much Wadhams may know, just how many times has he ever been accurate with his predictions concerning loss of arctic sea ice? And since his predictions have been so wrong, maybe he really doesn’t know as much as you think he knows.
Less than one year since these ridiculous anti-science comments—look where the world is now. Iceland & Greenland (Iceland is losing 25 sq miles of glacier each year; Greenland lost 10 Billion tons of ice in ONE DAY), Artic Circle, Alaska–highest temperature ever recorded in modern times– and this is less than one year since this article. The Gulf Stream now loops to just off Iceland and Nova Scotia, bringing warmer waters to normally frigid north Atlantic, and pulling hurricane after hurricane further north. What is happening cannot be stopped, but, it could be slowed to allow time for people and communities to prepare for the consequences of not heeding warnings from the scientific community. IMHO