Arctic Ice August 2010Arctic warming and global warming.The year up to July 31 has produced many examples of anomalous weather events globally. We have seen fires, floods, droughts and sandstorms on an immense scale. A new report shows that 10 out of 10 indicators of global warming are trending in the direction predicted when global warming was m
Arctic Ice July 2011 - UpdateAre we headed for another 2007 style crash ?In my Arctic Ice March 2011 - Update #1, I gave these figures for September minimum -an extent below 4 million km2 is highly probable.an extent below 3 million km2 is entirely possible if Arctic weather continues to follow the overall trends of the last decade.In April I
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predictedto happen. Quite a few predictions were made by people working independently as individuals or groups and using different techniques for prediction.
Science and Prediction
Science is of such great use to society because of its powers of prediction. Dmitri Mendeleev predicted the existence of eight elements - since discovered - from his observations of the systematic sets of properties of other chemical elements. The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846 when astronomers searched for a planet in a region where one was predicted to exist based on mathematical models of the Newtonian mechanics of our solar system.