PORTLAND – A La Niña Watch has been issued for the Northern Hemisphere by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.
As usual, the world’s top-rated climatologist had it backwards.
Based on subsurface ocean temperatures, the way these have progressed the past several months, and comparisons with development of prior El Niños, we believe that the system is moving toward a strong El Niño starting this summer
James Hansen – March 2011
He didn’t have it backwards, you simply don’t understand how these things work.
Since cold is actually heat, so to a La Nina is actually an El Nino, so by predicting an El Nino and a La Nina eventuating, his prediction was actually 100% accurate.
Get it?
The sign does not matter, just the extent and he was claiming an extreme ENSO event but was misquoted as saying an extreme warming El Nino event. RIGHT!!!!
After determining the extent you just use the needed sign. Just like the Mann-O-Matic Al-Gore-Rhythm!
Praise and awards are heaped upon those who are consistently wrong; Ehrlich is another case in point.
I’m beginning to think they’re making predictions they know will never eventuate on purpose, just so they’ll reap those rewards, and perhaps even more funding under the premise they might get it right in future.
Unfortunately, the fact that Hansen was wrong will have much less impact than his original prediction. Maybe you and I pay attention to whether he was right, but the average person does not. All they remember is the expectation of more hot weather; they never realize the prediction was not true.
Dr Kaku says it’s El Nina…
CHRIS WRAGGE: Is this the same weather pattern, though, that’s affecting us that’s affecting other regions around the world? You’ve had problems in Brazil with mud slides, Australia’s going through some weather issues now. Is this the same?
MICHIO KAKU: Similar. El Nina, cold weather around the equator, is contributing to what’s happening in Australia. And I was in Brazil just two weeks ago, where they had monster mud slides, killed hundreds of people because of flooding. Massive flooding. And it’s summertime now in Brazil.
CHRIS WRAGGE: In El Nina, what are the patterns here? Is it every couple of years?
MICHIO KAKU: Yeah, El Nina and the North Atlantic oscillations go back and forth every few years and they last a few months. And so we have both effects helping to bring down cold air from the north, while the Earth itself is heating up, creating more moisture in the Gulf of Mexico. And when the two meet, watch out.
WTF!
These people need to learn a bit about weather before they open their mouths!