How Texas Climatologist’s Perma-Drought Predictions Flopped

Written by Pierre Gosselin on July 31, 2018. Posted in Current News

On April 22, 2015, Katherine Hayhoe [pictured above] declared that permanent drought was the future for the Texas Panhandle and that part of the nation’s beef supply would get increasingly strained.

All the talk was about Texas having entered a state of perma-drought with no relief in sight.

Now let’s fast-forward ahead 3 years to 2018.

In his latest Weatherbell Saturday Summary, meteorologist Joe Bastardi brought up the much-ballyhooed Texas megadrought, reminding us at the 2:15 mark how back in 2012 “prominent Texas climatologists” were claiming that the 3-year heat and drought had been part of climate change.

Since those doomsday proclamations were made by the climate experts, Bastardi shows how the dire predictions never came to pass, and that the droughts have happened before in the 1950s, and were part of the natural Texas weather.

Joe Bastardi: “Does that look like a drought to you?” Source: WeatherBell.com, Saturday Summary, July 21, 2018.

No basis left for credibility

Like many skeptics who are aware of the desolate prediction track record climatologists have, Joe doesn’t understand how these climate experts still maintain any credibility at all. He says:

What I don’t get here is how people can make a forecast with something that was being made in Texas, prominent Texas climatologists were talking about a perma-drought coming, it goes the opposite way, and somehow or the other as soon as it gets hot and dry in Texas they’re out again, and they’re getting this credibility. At least question them – what happened to the last perma-drought?”

Yesterday I wrote about all the spectacular failed Arctic ice predictions made some 10 years ago. In private industry, where results actually count, such people would have been booted out long ago.

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