The 2000 National Climate Misassessment

Episode 42 of the The Climate Discussion Nexus podcast, hosted by John Robson, titled "The 2000 National Climate Misassessment" was published on October 12, 2021 and runs 22 minutes.

October 12, 2021 ·22m · The Climate Discussion Nexus

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In the year 2000, the U.S. government's Global Change Research Program produced the first in a series of National Climate Assessments that made a number of projections based on computer models it insisted were ready for prime time. But as Dr. John Robson explains in this Climate Discussion Nexus "Crystal Ball" video, including an interview with Dr. Pat Michaels, the models were already known to be worse than random when they examined past temperatures and their predictions, predictably, were worse than a con toss. Which didn't stand in the way of their bureaucratic empire-building.

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