"Roger Coppock" <rcoppock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Sunspot Scapegoat
> Actual sunspot
> count data barely show any correlation with the observed
> global land and sea surface temperature from 1880 to
> today.
>
Oh Really?????
Prediction By Sunspots Beats US Weather Service!
The Farmers Almanac uses sunspots to predict weather but "scientific"
government weather predictors know deep within their hearts that the
sun has no effect on weather or climate.
US farmers at odds with government over weather
08-27-2007, 19h18
WA****NGTON (AFP)
A man crosses a street as snow falls in March 2007, in Harvard Square
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An annual US publication with a track
record for accurately predicting the weather found itself at odds with
the government weather service over what winter is going to be like in
the United States.
(AFP/File)
An annual US publication with a track record for accurately predicting
the weather found itself at odds Monday with the government weather
service over what winter is going to be like in the United States.
The 191st edition of the US Farmers' Almanac, which goes on sale on
Tuesday, predicts a colder than usual winter from Maine to normally
warm Florida, in the eastern half of the United States, with excellent
skiing conditions in the northeast.
The western half of the United States will enjoy mild conditions with
near- to below-normal precipitation, the Almanac says.
"Overall, Mother Nature is showing no mercy to the east and being a
little more forgiving in the west," the book, which calls itself a
compendium of facts, predicts.
The National Weather Service's (NWS) forecast, meanwhile, had heart-
warming words for Americans grappling with high fuel prices.
Much of the United States, including the east, will enjoy higher than
normal temperatures this winter, with only the northwest left out of
the above-normal trend, NWS meteorologist Edward O'Lenic told AFP.
Farmers' Almanac editor Sandi Duncan hinted that the Almanac's
forecast was the one to pay attention to.
"Our track record speaks for itself," Duncan said. Readers of the book
say it gets the weather right 85 percent of the time.
"We go out on a limb and stand by our predictions; they don't."
O'Lenic said the NWS only professes to "tell you how the dice are
loaded for the season, based on trends and probability."
The Farmers' Almanac, which in its 2005 edition predicted two strong
hurricanes -- Katrina and Rita -- would rip through the same part of
the Gulf of Mexico coastal region in the southern United States, is
forecasting an unusually active tornado season in the midwestern
states next year and an active hurricane season starting in July.
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
re****t the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
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