Unimpaired by successful results, weather forecasters in the Rocky Mountains are again predicting a Hurricane Season in Florida. This time, they are predicting Hurricanes in 2010. However, they admit that their predictions are just not that good. Nor are anyone else's predictions reliable this far in advance of the actual 2010 Hurricane Season.
The Rockies forecasters operate with Federal Taxpayer Funds in a contract given them by the Bush Administration, as readers of this post know. The Colorado State University forecasters of Florida 2010 Hurricanes "admit it's impossible to predict potential hurricane activity this early." Emily Nipps, "The Hurricane Crystal Ball" (St. Petersburg Times Online, Saturday, December 19, 2009).
Still, not making predictions now means no publicity. Parenthetically, in the linked newspaper report, the publicity is not so good. On the other hand, even bad predictions draw publicity.
As I have written here before, why pay attention? Why treat failure as though it were success? Particularly when successful alternatives are available, so readily available, in fact, that they have been listed in previous posts in this space?
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