What the heck is wrong with Williams? 

Does he have another job lined up yet?

Yeah, that's great; he admits (but includes everyone else, other media and the government) that they were wrong.    Nice confession, except for the fact that he dragged everyone else into it.

It would have better if he would have said also that we were wrong to report what we didn't know, to try and scare the hell out of you. 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think the NOAA predicted that number of hurricanes. 

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Hurricane Brian blew briefly hot with storm force winds and then quickly fizzled out.

"And for the record, by the way, long-term forcasting is an inexact science". Coming up next, Al Gore, and how Global Warming will kill us all in 25 years. 

Funny how in this context long-term equals 6 months yet 'the debate is over' on Global Warming and the effects it will have on us over the next 10 to 20 years.

MSM refuses to mention the words "global warming" in all of the admission stories I've seen, though Al Gore and other liberal fanatics gladly touted that empirical evidence when it served their purposes.

The contention is that overall global temperatures are warming since the Industrial Revolution (so we're talking roughly 200 years), and climate science regularly touts various scientific data and empirical data to justify its position, including hurricanes, shrinking ice sheets, etc.

And if we're talking "GLOBAL WARMING," then you can't site the Pacific cyclones and ignore the fact that Atlantic cyclones didn't materialize as Al Gore and climatologists predicted. Global warming is GLOBAL; it's not hemi-oceanal, such that it will fit one's template to continue blind faith in the theory. I'm curious what the revision will be with several years of cooler weather; there will be a revision, though. Too many reputations are now at stake, should this giant farce fall on its face (and it will).

Yes, El Nino (in revision of the prediction) is now ascribed as the reason the Atlantic hurricane season went POOF! But remember that we have used Nostradamus's quatrains in the same way--describe what occurred after the fact by forcing/revising the prediction to fit the template.

In other words, science can be clever enough to hypothesize its way out of a corner, should it predict itself into a corner to begin with.

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They sound like a bunch of charlatans at a circus sideshow: "Pay no attention to that news editor behind the curtain."

"...for the record, by the way, long-term forecasting is an inexact science..."

ROTFLMAO!

There are so many things ignored by the media in their hurry to hype global warming, that it would take a week of very lengthy blog entries to expose them all. As for this little piece by Brian Williams, there is a major connection missing...he failed to draw the parallel to the global warming hysteria.

"...despite the vast collective expertise of NOAA scientists, immense quantities of atmospheric and oceanic data, and unprecedented computing power, NOAA failed miserably in predicting weather events a mere six months into the future – and reiterated those same ill-conceived predictions at mid-season.

Yet global warming alarmists, including those at NOAA, expect us to unthinkingly buy into their dire forecasts of global warming – predictions that extend 100 years or more into the future. Forecasting global climate change decades into the future can only be described as orders of magnitude more complex than forecasting an imminent, six month-long hurricane season..." - Steven Milloy (full text here)

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Clyde

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

I suspect that there is an underlying motive at work here Brent. You see, the scientists here, William Gray and Phil Klotzbach at Colo. State, and Chris Landsea at NOAA who are so involved in these predictions, also find themselves being the spanking boys of the media because of their less-than-radical scientific position on global warming and on global warming's potential influence on hurricane frequency and intensity. Although these experts are willing to put their reputation on the line each and every year with their deeply researched predictions - and all for the purpose of protecting life and property - they are equally comfortable in announcing changes in their forcasts when they see shifts in weather patterns.

I suspect that the media has great interest in making these specific scientists look fallible.  Recent changes in predictions from several of the promoters of global warming did not receive such attention.