"As they say about the stock market: Past results are no indication of future performance." –- so quit pretending you know what’s going to happen.... might as well just take a poll.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
"But what...is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! no wait...
The predictions resulted in big business down this way ... Katrina has become a cash cow on multiple levels.
Now that the Democrats control congress, there will be no major hurricanes for at least two years.
The infallibility of science again. Are these the same people who believe in global warming now being called "climate change?"
Other than AccuWeather's routine silly hype of hurricanes hitting the Northeast, there actually weren't any seasonal predictions such as the article claims. Most predicted an above-average year in terms of activity; nobody predicted a record-breaking year or a year with activity even approaching 2005.
"ingesting masses of dry Saharan dust and air over the Atlantic Ocean"
but...but...I thought the dust was supposed to help increase storms by allowing more condensate to form around the increased amount of dust particles....or does that increase cloud cover and there-fore cool the oceans....I'm so confused...where is the global warming or cooling...oh my the humanity...!
I notice the words "probably won't" and "no promise" which tell me they still don't like the fact they were wrong this year and they are hoping for a better chance of destruction and misery next season.
ping
[...no assurance that next year will be as calm]
But...but, aren't you the weather prediction gods?
I thought Al Gore said we'd all be blown away this season due to global warming and Karl Rove causing more hurricaines. Gee now I don't know what to panic about.
The major news networks so badly wanted to paint a doom and gloom scenario for the Bush Administration that it willingly and knowingly printed bogus stories from weather predicters, which are less accurate than 'psychics' in long-term predictions.
Nowhere in the article did it say that the dire predictions for '06 were pure fabrications and designed to "scare Granny" for enviro purposes. When will these "scientists" take responsiblity for such nonsense?
I say, "Let the floggings begin."
"Chaos", written by J. Gleick, does a wonderful job of explaining why weather predictions will never be accurate. I am really surprised this book - or chaos itself - has not been mentioned more during grobal warming debates.....C
I blame President Bush for all deaths caused by storms that kill people who live BELOW SEA LEVEL!