Since the world didn't end last week, it's time to cook up a new bunch of predictions to baffle the seriously confused with. Where will Elvis be seen next? Who will make it to the National Enquirer's 6-weeks-to-live list with their shocking emaciated photo on the front page? Which congresscritters will stumble into the wrong bedroom with the TV cameras rolling? Will there be more Mormons arrested for DUI?
These are all interesting questions, and when they happen, they will titillate the news media, who will in turn titillate the legions who are even less inquisitive than they are.
But this diary is more along the lines of what weather to expect for 2013. How is climate change going to express itself, even given all the scientific disclaimers that "you can't really tie this event to climate change, you can only say that the probabilities have changed..." Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Skip over the cloud of orange greenhouse gas for bold predictions.
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