Readers may recall yesterday that I posted this story : As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing “active”.
This was from the FSU press release at Eurekalert here which headlines “Hurricane season is here, and FSU scientists predict an active one” also backed up by this Google cache screencap at FSU’s web page below:
FSU has now changed the page to read:
Source: http://www.fsu.edu/
From active to near-normal in less than 24 hours. Who says you can’t change the weather?
😉
h/t to WUWT reader “Cam”
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Thank you Anthony, and thank you FSU for realizing that words have meaning.
perhaps ‘active’ is the new normal…
Good one Leif!
It’s hard to fudge the story when people are watching, ain’t it.
Leif Svalgaard says:
June 2, 2012 at 7:21 am
perhaps ‘active’ is the new normal…
In that case I’m very active!
Pathetic. Science as propaganda.
Leif owes me a new keyboard! Good one !!!
Whether the hurricane season is forecast to be active or near-normal, it is comforting to know that the
Anthony of ten thousand eyes, guardian of our records for posterity.
Well done. Thank you.
Pass the popcorn and can I have a cold one? Now if Anthony can just get the sensor “adjusters” to stop with their homogenizing, we can put this one to bed and get back to the pleasures of life. Only thing is, having a government is a full time baby sitting job isn’t it.
Good catch. But, yup, that’s what happens when science flirts with public relations, advocacy, and the main stream media.
Maybe we should require all scientists to take a vow of celibacy?
Independent individuals volunteering to be alert to the shifting disguises of climatology exaggeration / alarmism.
Thanks WUWT for being a main hub of vigilance on climate science.
John
I guess it’s not unusual these days for a normal/activist journalist to write an enviro-article that gets an inflammatory headline attached to it by a sub-editor. Sometimes I even feel pity for them.
But not very much.
I’m glad to see that they’re reading WUWT and taking notice.
When will they ever learn? The old days of just shovelling out any alarmist drivel, are a thing of the past. It all gets looked at nowadays, and checked. Just transplanting old MSM journalism onto the internet will never work …
“Increasingly, the MSM looks like a tired and broken down old dinosaur, limping towards extinction, while that new and nimble species, the internet, looks to be taking over its niche. You’re watching natural selection in action.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/oh-what-a-wonderful-msm/
Pointman
I can assure you that the scientists involved did not use the term “active-season”. An ACE of 122 is well above normal though — so there is a disconnect between what people perceive as # of storms and hurricanes and their tracks.
FSU’s model (Dr. Tim LaRow) has the storm tracks in the output which is why he can provide an exact ACE estimate.
The power of the alternative media! One has to wonder if the biased professional media as an institution will survive.
Anthony – it is only because of your tireless efforts and other dedicated individuals like yourself that the world has been made to turn a more critical eye on AGW. Unlike most of us, I suspect you will merit mention when historians write of this period a hundred years from now – regardless of how this turns out.
Forecasting what is going to happen in the future is silly and something I will never do.
Oh drat!
These liars are incorrigible; and they work while you sleep.
At the Weekly Standard Chicken Little (a.k.a Janet Napolitano-Incompetano) cries, “The hurricanes are coming! The terrorists did it. It’s all the bushes’ fault.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dhs-warns-hurricanes_646437.html
Dear Anthony,
WUWT will be one of the new standards used in science. Examples are the above hurricane prediction circusses; the excellent entry of atmospheric “depletion” over eons, and the incredible mind of “our” Willis.
many thanks.
Ryan Maue says:
June 2, 2012 at 8:25 am
I’d love to see a post-season analysis of Dr LaRow’s tracks vs. actual tracks.
All you have to do to be unprecedentedly accurate with predictions is to remember the times you were right and forget the times you were wrong. Anthony does not let them forget nor lets them get away with rewriting history so as to improve their record. Obviously then, from their perspective, he is the cause of their being wrong much of the time and should be prohibited from doing what he does. What they didn’t take into account is that the internet never forgets and that Anthony knows how to use the internet to good advantage.
Way to go, Anthony!
Why science perversion is such a hateful thing – the damage is done:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dhs-warns-hurricanes_646437.html
H/T Matt Drudge