Tuesday, June 26, 2007
PREDICTIONIST CLAIMS ACCURACY
A column by Tim Flannery in the London Times appears below this headline:
Ten predictions about climate change that have come true
All are so vague and non-proveable (“species would start going extinct”) they might have been written by a carnival psychic. As for Flannery’s more precise predictions, check this, made in June 2005:
The ongoing drought could leave Sydney’s dams dry in just two years.
Well, Flannery’s wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. Oh, last month he also predicted:
Brisbane and Adelaide - home to a combined total of three million people - could run out of water by year’s end.
Again, Flannery is wrong. Yet he’s sticking to his guns. And from the Times piece linked above, Flannery’s seventh prediction about climate change he claims has come true: “That Australia would start drying out.”
Wrong.
(Via Graham B., Murph, and Andrew R.)