How to constrain unconstrained global-warming predictions

Suddenly, the hitherto-unconstrainable equilibrium sensitivities become constrained – and their entire interval turns out to be below the lower bound of the currently-imagined interval. Inserting the 255 K emission temperature…

Constant dire predictions have been an attempt to counter effective criticism of polar bears as AGW icon, says outgoing PBSG chair

In an unexpected statement, Dag Vongraven (the out-going Chairman of the Polar Bear Specialist Group) suggests that much of the incessant dire warnings of doom about the future of polar…

Update 3 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions

As we get closer to the big heat event, powerful new forecasting tools are becoming available. Tools that provide a higher resolution and more nuanced view of the extreme heatwave…

Update 2 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions

Surface temperatures will get above 112F over and near the western slopes of the Cascades. Large portions of western Oregon and Washington away from the water will be above 104F.

Update on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions

If this forecast verifies virtually every major observing location in the western WA and Oregon interior will achieve their all-time temperature record. And several of these locations have observations that…

The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions

“As we said, choosing the wrong equations for the under-ice landscape can have the same effect on the contribution to sea-level rise as a warming of several degrees”, Åkesson says.

Failed Climate Predictions

I got to thinking about my now 10 years of occasionally contributed guest posts at WUWT and at Climate Etc. Lots of stuff provided over the years, ranging from NRDC…

10 Failed Predictions: Video

Many climate alarmist’s failed predictions were centered around 2020. This video examines just ten, and argues that they were produced not by science, but by ideology.

CAGW failed ‘Predictions’

This post incorporates by reference (not by links [lazy me], just by key WUWT search words or other occasional generic mentions) many previous WUWT guest posts plus other writings that…

Famous Failed Predictions: UK Offshore Wind Edition

Guest “Just a bit outside!” by David Middleton Bjorn Lomborg posted this on LinkedIn this morning… The Grauniad article is a hoot! Wind energy to power UK by 2020, government…

#EarthDay at 50: None Of The Eco-Doomsday Predictions Have Come True

By Ron Stein From predicting ecological collapse and the end of civilization to warnings that the world is running out of oil, all environmental doomsday predictions of the first Earth…

Coronavirus Death Predictions Bring New Meaning to Hysteria

image licensed from 123rf.com Reposted from RealClearMarkets with author permission  (and slightly out of date) By Michael Fumento April 01, 2020 The U.S. is staring at a Netflix-type apocalypse. You…

Greta preaches many of the first Earth Day’s failed predictions

By Ronald Stein |March 13th, 2020|Environment More than three decades before Greta Thunberg was born — the Swedish environmental activist on climate change, diagnosed with Asperger’s — more than 20…

Were IPCC’s 1990 medium-term warming predictions accurate? No.

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the increasingly vain hope of success in flogging the dead horse Global Warming, revisionists are increasingly trying to pretend that climatologists’ original predictions of…

Paper praising models’ predictions proves they greatly exaggerate

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, A recent paper by Hausfather et al. purports to demonstrate that models “are accurately projecting global warming”. In reality, and stripped of the now-routine hype…

The Climate Decade that Was: Failed Predictions, Tour De Paris, and the Gretas

by Vijay Jayaraj As we step into a new decade, here’s a look at the climate drama that just ended. The 2010s were dominated by the failure of doomsday prophecies,…

Why Modern Famine Predictions Failed !

What’s Natural column Guest post by Jim Steele, published in the Pacifica Tribune Wednesday December 18, 2019 Victims if 1876 Famine in India When I graduated high school in 1968…

Predictions are Hard, Especially About the Future

Gasoline vs Electric Vehicle Future Fuel Costs This was originally a comment on David Middleton’s post, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/31/the-oil-age-is-doing-just-fine-bloomberg-new-energy-finance-notwithstanding/ The original comment was from Detengineer, in reply to another comment from Mark,…

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

From the YouTube description: Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates…

Critique of “Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Predictions”

From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog September 11th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. I’ve been asked for my opinion by several people about this new published paper by Stanford…

The Faith Component of Global Warming Predictions

Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog September 8th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. It’s been ten years since I addressed this issue in a specific blog post, so…

ENSO predictions based on solar activity

From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on September 1, 2019 by curryja by Javier By knowing or estimating where in the solar cycle we are we can get an…

Gore Says His Global Warming Predictions Have Come True? Can He Prove It?

From Issues and Insights J. Frank Bullitt When asked Sunday about his 2006 prediction that we would reach the point of no return in 10 years if we didn’t cut…

Contrary to Global Warming Predictions, Great Lakes Water Levels Now at Record Highs

From Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog June 27th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. It is a truism that any observed change in nature will be blamed by some experts…