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2008.01.09. "The sea ice is decreasing faster than all the models predicted," says Jay Zwally, the ice satellite project scientist at NASA Goddard, "We not only have the warming of the atmosphere, we have a warming of the ocean that is affecting this. It has been surprising to everybody, this decrease in area. This is a marked departure, and this is suggesting to us that maybe we are getting at this tipping point."Amazingly enough this drooling blowbot is still working for NASA and still trying to sell his dried horse turds. You just can't get rid of these scientific brainholes. Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 17, 2014 6:48 PM
He never actually liked making measurements. In Antarctica, he dug one snow pit, and left and never came back. They are untethered to actual conditions.
Posted by: Holton at October 18, 2014 6:57 AMWinnowing is long overdue.
Posted by: Richard at October 18, 2014 10:55 AMPeople sometimes say that something will happen.
If in the end it doesn't happen, then of course they were wrong.
People sometimes say that something could happen.
If in the end it does happen, then that shows they were right.
Curiously, if in the end it doesn't happen, nothing follows at all.
Posted by: Michael at October 19, 2014 4:21 PMCuriously, if in the end it doesn't happen, nothing follows at all.
Or if they're Paul Ehrlich, they just go on and on. He's been wrong since the '60s (The Population Bomb, which predicted there wouldn't be enough food by the '80s) the '70s (Nuclear Winter, which claimed that nuclear testing, left unchecked, would alter the climate so we'd all freeze to death) and his current rave about the inevitability of cannibalism (see above, The Population Bomb.)
Has this affected his shelf life? Nope, still a full professor at Stanford and an advisor to (quel surprise) Obama on "ecoscience." A perfect record, wrong every fuckin time.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at October 20, 2014 7:55 PM"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated to combat spam and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.
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