WHAT? – AT 9:21 A.M. ET:   Do you ever feel you're being had?  Just read this, from London's Telegraph:

Meteorologists believe they will finally be able to give accurate long-range weather predictions after British scientists developed the world’s best long-term forecasting model, it has emerged.

The breakthrough is expected to have a major impact on the economy, with power companies able to anticipate energy demands and hospitals better prepared for weather-related illnesses and accidents.
Until now, the difficulty of predicting the weather far into the future with any degree of accuracy has defeated even powerful supercomputers.

Experts claim they perform only slightly better than chance when it comes to predicting whether a winter will be mild, severe, freezing, snowy or stormy.

COMMENT:  Are they kidding?  Haven't we been told that, before this "breakthrough," scientists could already predict global warming for almost a century? 

What's going on here?  This story came out just a few days after the UN, that Mecca of integrity, came out with another dire warning that the end is nigh due to climate change.

As we've said before, it's time for a Challenger-type commission to look into this whole vague area of climate prediction and tell us what's really accurate.  Some chance.

April 2, 2014