[Zakeet]

Scientists can accurately predict eclipses ... therefore they can accurately predict global warming!

[C210N]

Yep, apples and oranges.

They can predict with some certainty when the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda. 4 billion years. Climate change in 100 years? Not so much.

[Steve_Seattle]

Scientists can aaccurately predict eclipses decades in advance, but all of their global warming predictions turn out to be wrong, so - yes - this is a clue as to whether we should trust climate science.

[Reverend Wright]

“This is the acid test of any scientific theory: Does it make predictions that ultimately come true?”

Well climate “science” has already failed on that score since the predicted temperature increases in the last 20 years have not happened.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Science uses the scientific method.

Climate “science” does not use the scientific method.

Any questions?

[UB355]

http://www.weather.gov/images/mkx/top-news/2015/2015WaterLevels.png

Weather.gov doom and gloom on Great Lakes water levels. Latest fail is a rise in water levels of + 4 feet.

[CincyRichieRich]

Wow and to say this with such bravado. He likely doesn’t know an acid from a base, but says, acid test like he’s cool.
He may even be too moronic to be called a useful tool.

[yoe]

...they can't or won't accurately predict or call terrorism what it is let alone use that "T" word...

[cgbg]

If governments around the world gave grants to scientists to claim that eclipses were impossible you can be sure that it would be “settled science” eclipses do not exist.

Anyone who claimed otherwise would be declared a kook and an extremist.

[MileHi]

So what predictions has climate science made, and have they come true?

For the most part.... no

[Huskrrrr]

If I were to face slap myself now I would probably kill myself.

[CommerceComet]

Some things are really easy to predict when all the pertinent factors are known and the process follows a known and relatively unvarying pattern. Climate studies are nothing like that. Scientists are still trying to gain an understanding of the underlying processes which are probably several magnitudes more complicated than the rotation of bodies in space. This writer is a simpleton.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"Nonsense"

By Robert J. Gula

[neverevergiveup]

The mechanics of planetary motion are dramatically better understood than the determinants of climate. Science has a hard time making predictions based upon limited data sets and incomplete understanding of the mechanisms and variables defining any ‘system’. There's a reason the FDA doesn't approve drugs based upon computer modeling. The author of this story is a self-serving zealot who appears to have made his career the same way celebrity climate scientists have made theirs - by alarmism untethered to definitive data.

[editor-surveyor]

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The NY Slimes proving yet again that they haven’t a clue what science is.
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[avenir]

I know a scientific formula that puts the work of all of the world’s scientists to shame (but I won’t be able to prove it for awhile):

“Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”—Revelation 20:15

Now THAT’S scientific and a formula that will be proven 100% accurate (unlike their imperfect decrees).

(PS...be found written in that Book!)

[JPJones]

“So what predictions has climate science made, and have they come true?”

No.

An Ice Age (Rasool/Schnieder 1971)

.2C warming the first two decades of 21st century (IPCC TAR)

Ice free Arctic by 2016. Wadhams/Maslowski 2012

“Children won’t know what snow is.”- 2001, Dr. Viner, PhD., Hadley Climate Research Unit.

[freefdny]

The epic stupidity of the entire article is mind boggling. I’m not a scientist but I like to think I can reason and think critically. No such attempt at reason and critical thinking is even remotely attempted here.
“They tell us that we are now at risk of causing the great ice sheets in Greenland and west Antarctica to collapse, which would raise the sea level 30 feet or more over some unknown period, wiping out many of the world’s great cities.” The use of the incredibly precise and deeply sound scientific terminology “some unknown period” for a thirty foot sea rise tells you all you need to know about this article. Is the unknown period for the sea rise a week,a year,a billion years? Who knows? Just remember it will wipe out many of the world’s greatest cities. I think if Galileo were alive today he would roar with laughter at these great scientific minds.

[MountainWalker]

For this to resemble AGW this would be have to be like a solar eclipse passing over Patagonia in October and astronomers claiming to have nailed the prediction anyway.

[Lurkinanloomin]

People who are directly in the path of the total eclipse will get a perfect object lesson in global warming when the temperature drops when the Sun’s rays are interrupted.

All global warming comes from the Sun.

[Grampa Dave]

It isn't theory or a SWAG when solar eclipses occur.

There is a proven mathematical formula as shown below. Gorebull warming isn't even a SWAG. It is pure emotional BS posing as science.

Below is the formula for calculating solar eclipses. This is the formula for between 2005 and 2050:

T=62.92+0.32217;t+0.005589;t2

T=62.92+0.32217;t+0.005589;t2

Where:

y=year+(month 0.5)/12

y=year+(month0.5)/12

t=y;2000