{"id":378658,"date":"2010-03-02T00:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5270"},"modified":"2010-03-02T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:11:42","slug":"gore-loses-the-first-2-years-of-the-climate-bet-to-armstrong%e2%80%99s-scientific-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/378658","title":{"rendered":"Gore loses the first 2 years of the climate bet to Armstrong\u2019s scientific forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=209\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Betting&quot;\">Betting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  What if Mr. Gore had accepted Professor Armstrong\u2019s proposed ten-year bet on climate change in 2007? Gore said that the temperature would go up while Armstrong predicted it would not change from the 2007 average. We assumed a relatively conservative prediction from Mr. Gore of a 0.03 degrees Centigrade increase per year: the central projection of the U.N.\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years 2008 and 2009, Mr Gore\u2019s forecast was closer than Professor Armstrong\u2019s to the actual monthly temperature in only four of the 24 months. Put another way Mr Gore\u2019s forecast was 0.26 degrees too warm in 2008 and 0.08 degrees in 2009, whereas Professor Armstrong\u2019s was 0.23 degrees too warm in 2008 and 0.02 degrees to warm in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>We use the University of Alabama at Huntsville\u2019s satellite measure of the global lower atmosphere temperature anomaly as our actual temperature in order to avoid the problems identified by researchers and, more recently, the release of the \u201cClimategate\u201d emails, with the Hadley Centre series used by the IPCC.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: theclimatebet.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5270\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4Vgel5DqFK-R_Z5YMgtOApS1cew\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4Vgel5DqFK-R_Z5YMgtOApS1cew\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4Vgel5DqFK-R_Z5YMgtOApS1cew\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4Vgel5DqFK-R_Z5YMgtOApS1cew\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/xKae92Rnc_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Betting What if Mr. Gore had accepted Professor Armstrong\u2019s proposed ten-year bet on climate change in 2007? Gore said that the temperature would go up while Armstrong predicted it would not change from the 2007 average. We assumed a relatively conservative prediction from Mr. Gore of a 0.03 degrees Centigrade increase per year: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}