Alexis: “What’s the difference between climate prediction and astrology?”
Answer: Astrologers know better than to make refutable predictions.
“A study in the Royal Metereological Society journal did just that, focusing on the best available evidence of the past 25 years. Measuring instruments have improved immensely in accuracy and coverage in recent decades, using satellites, weather balloons and surface sensors.
“Alas, all 22 math models use by the United Nations failed to predict the last twenty-five years. “
Watts up with that: “January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. I have reported in the past two weeks that HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, and GISS global temperature sets all show sharp drops in the last year.
“Also see the recent post on what the last 10 years looks like with the same four metrics – 3 of four show a flat trendline. “
