Having fun with predictions

Over at Watts Up With That  we are brought up to date on a prediction made back in 2007.

Apparently, 4.5 billion people were supposed to die by 2012 from AGW.

Unlike the blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas the last two years people are not lying dead in the streets en masse.

There are still 7 billion of us on the planet.

Another failed CAGW prediction.

Surprised?

Didn't think so.

Oh, oh. Here is another one. This time Arctic sea ice is predicted to disappear by end of summer 2012. (The comments after this one are fun). The summer of 2011 had the shortest melt season on record and sea ice froze at the fastest rate on record in the fall of 2011. Sea ice extent is now at highest level since 2005. Compare JAXA melt season length. But then the Arctic was supposed to be ice free in 2000, 2008 or 2010. The science is settled. There is a consensus. And it was wrong.

After 30 years of unprecedented increases in Co2 concentration in the atmosphere due to human burning of fossil fuels sea ice extent is at the 30 year mean. Shouldn't the attendant warming have melted a lot of the ice? CAGW doesn't seem to be working out for its believers and they are in denial about it.

Any bets that the sea ice is just fine in 2012?? And the poley bears too??

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?