The computer models predicted the warming in red.
The actual non-warming is in green.
This is an inconvenient truth.™
Al Gore is lucky he isn’t a betting man.
In 2007, Professor Scott Armstrong at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school challenged Al Gore to a $10,000 bet about temperatures over the next decade. Fox News reported on the challenge at the time.
The bet proposal was to compare the U.N.’s standard global warming model against Armstrong’s prediction of no increase at all. The money would have gone to charity.
Gore declined the bet. According to Armstrong, a Gore spokesman said that, “Mr. Gore simply does not wish to participate in a financial wager.”Now, 10 years after the offer, Armstrong is declaring victory, albeit a moral one.From the would-be bet period of 2008 through the end of 2017, Armstrong’s prediction of zero temperature change was more accurate in more months than the standard U.N. model, which predicts an increase in temperatures.