Reminds me of the classic database geeks cartoon

http://xkcd.com/327/

@Moderation

Correction.
“translates to a global temperature of 1.5 degree Celsius by 2020″

Please stop editing out the word “drop” from this correction.
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Think I will leave it at that – it might be some auto-correct thing in the software.

At first I thought I’d made a typo until I realized I’d cut n pasted (plagiarized) from the original text so it had to have been edited.

I’m also documenting the saga in a “Scaremongering” thread at Kiwiblog in the hope that someone is watching.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/12/scare-mongering.html#comment-772153

No-one has commented so far. Flipper frequents that blog (mostly political I think), he comments here sometimes.

The first comment editing occurred on this page

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10690687&pnum=3

The second here

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10690687&pnum=4

The third here

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10690687&pnum=6

It remains to be seen if the third correction addressed to @Moderation sees the light of day.

Correction
“translates to a global temperature drop of 1.5 degree Celsius by 2020″

Please stop editing out the word “drop”

The most convincing argument yet, supporting a strong impact of the sun�s activity on climate change, is a direct connection between cloud coverage and cosmic rays, discovered by H. Svensmark and E. Friis-Christensen [111] in 1996. It is shown in Figure 6. Clouds have a hundred times stronger effect on weather and climate than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even if the atmosphere�s CO2 content doubled, its effect would be cancelled out if the cloud cover expanded by 1%, as shown by H. E. Landsberg [53]

Continues…………….

From

SOLAR ACTIVITY: A DOMINANT FACTOR IN CLIMATE DYNAMICS

by Dr Theodor Landscheidt

http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm

Remember the comments in the Climategate emails when John Daly died
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And now to prediction

Based on the the assumption that the Southern Oscillation is the primary driver of year-to-year global temperature, with a 6 to 9 month lag time, we can now predict that since the SOI has now gone sharply into La Ni�a mode in the last 6 months, global temperature will follow (with the predicted time lag) and fall to below the zero line (the long term average of temperature) in the next few months. The latest monthly value for temperature was +0.33�C in October 1998, after reaching a peak of +0.72�C in April. Since the SOI moved into La Ni�a mode in June, we can expect global temperature to fall below the zero line by March 1999.

John L. Daly (22 Nov 1998)

Update: 20th March 2000

Since writing the above article over 15 months ago, global temperature did indeed fall below the long-term average by March 1999. Since then, the earth has continued in La Ni�a mode with consequent below-average temperatures as measured by the satellites. Temperature continues to closely track the SOI with a time lag.

For the latest version of the comparison chart, click here – John L. Daly

http://www.john-daly.com/soi-temp.htm
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The article preceding the prediction is a good read

El Ni�o and Global Temperature

Southern Oscillation Index (S.O.I.) effect on temperature.

[Snip]

A more interesting question then arises as to what `causes� the cycles in the Southern Oscillation. We know it results from gargantuan changes in ocean currents and in deep water upwelling in the eastern Pacific, but as to what triggers this response is still an unknown. The answer may well lie in long-term solar changes. The Greenhouse industry readily blames greenhouse gases, but the idea that a few parts per million of CO2 can cause the overturning of trillions of megatonnes of sea water is fanciful to say the least, a reasoning based more on ideology than on science. Those who point to greenhouse gases as the `cause� of El Ni�o fail to describe exactly what mechanism they imagine the gases to be performing to achieve such a feat.

[Snip]

“solar changes” in that paragraph is linked to this page

SOLAR ACTIVITY: A DOMINANT FACTOR IN CLIMATE DYNAMICS

by Dr Theodor Landscheidt

http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm