Right. I'm sure January 3rd somebody will be here to remind us that the prediction could come true any time up until February whateverth.

The fear mongers who make these predictions just love it when their "predictions" fall flat and their followers continue to play the sucker for them anyways.

I saw this on a web site and thought I would throw it in.


01 December 2008 Beached whales die in Australia [Keyword: stranding ]
About 150 whales have died after being stranded in a remote coastal area of the Australian island of Tasmania.

Many of the long-finned pilot whales, which were discovered on Saturday, had been badly injured by jagged rocks.

Rescuers did manage to shepherd about 30 whales trapped in shallow reefs to safety using a small boat, an official said.

Whales pass Tasmania as they migrate to and from Antarctic waters and stranding is not uncommon.

Last week 11 whales were rescued after more than 60 became stranded off another part of the island.

Local residents and experts had worked to help this group of whales, stranded near Sandy Cape in north-west Tasmania, but most had been injured by rocks and reefs.

Officials moved one stranded whale that was calling to a group offshore, in a bid to prevent further deaths.

"Unfortunately, that whale died but what happened then was those 30 whales milling around seemed more willing to move on and with a boat in the water we managed to shepherd them out of the bay," Warwick Brennan, a spokesman for the department of primary industries and water, told AAP news agency.

Pilot whales are among the smaller whales, growing to about 5m (16ft) in length.
Scientists are not sure what causes whales to beach.

Source: bbc.co.uk

Originally posted by Dewm0nster
Ah man.
It's awesome to be right all the time.
Some people would think it's a curse- But me?
Nah.
I just, love bein' right.

Now where's that fat juicy apology?
Has it been posted yet, or are we all still waiting?

lol

It is 6.29 am and I have just had my first laugh of the morning. Cheers dude.

Jim Birkland 's window was until the 18th so I will be watching for 2 more days.

He's usually quite accurate.

the "[hoax]" should be added anytime now...

Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Depends on how large scale the event is......locally its difficult, but region wide is a bit easier as weather patterns are examined on a macro scale. Again its hard for me to say, because I am not in the climate section and work in Australia, not North America. On a macro scale, the probability of events can be forecast up to almost 12 months in advance

It doesnt surprise me that web bot may have got it correct though, taking into account the wealth of climatic and long term forecasts that are available on the web at the moment. I would be more surprised if web bot didnt examine data packages from anywhere and just came out with it from no where, but since it didnt, i cant say I am impressed.

By the way, who is translating the web bot "predictions"? And why are we only hearing web bot has predicted these events after they have occured? Bit suspicious in my opinion

Thanks for the info, as I really don't know too much about long-term forecasting. Apparently, about as much as you know about how the web bot works. There are plenty of links in this thread that detail who is making the translations and predictions. So I'll assume you haven't read any of those and quickly passed it all off as some bs like so many on this thread have as well. I think that's the biggest problem coming from skeptics on this thread. They see "earthquake prediction", read nothing about where it's coming from to learn the how and why, and immediately just write it off.

As far as anything suspicious in regard to the weather predictions, I quoted the recent release of the ALTA run from Aug. 8, back on page 23 of this thread. The date I posted that prediction was Dec. 10. Now, check page 29 and see the link to the state of emergency article for the storm in Rome. That occurred on Dec 13, right in the window mentioned on the Aug. 8 ALTA run, with numerous key words that the web bot had pulled out of it's run. It's these specifics at the local level which are what interest me and give the web bot more than a coincidences chance of being correct. I guess it's true that the web bot could be getting info from climate change models, but the creators say they search for changes in emotional levels of language. Originally, all they were searching for was a way to get a leg up on the stock market, but after things started appearing in their runs that had nothing to do with that, they realized they might have stumbled upon something. And I'm not sure what could be more emotional than a state of emergency. Or 800,000 people losing their electricity for an extended period of time. These are not normal storm type events, they are once in a (decade?/century?) type events that make the front page of news outlets.

Might they have missed on the EQ prediction? Yes, but the window still is open until Jan. 5. They seem to have a direct hit with two storm predictions, so I guess they are 2 for 3 at this point. Not bad and a bit higher than what coincidence says should happen.

Originally posted by seabisquit
Jim Birkland 's window was until the 18th so I will be watching for 2 more days.

He's usually quite accurate.

no sorry we're not discussing jim berkland here ... we're talking about the web bots and their time is up. they have proven their selves a big fat failure ONCE again.

no more air time for them!

edited out bad spelling.

[edit on 16-12-2008 by ll__raine__ll]

there's always some earthquake somewhere...the sweden quake is insignificant.

Originally posted by Evil Genius
I would also still like to point out that the ALTA run from August 8th stated clearly that the window for this quake was from Dec. 10 thru Jan. 5. I think most of you were too busy killing the messenger instead of actually reading the message. The dates from Dec. 10-15 were considered hot due to the cluster of language centered around that time.

According to the transcript of the radio interview to which questioningall posted a link some posts back, what he said was:

So the next time we do an earthquake predication… which is for December 10th through 12th.

This interview was in September, I think.

You say you aren't very impressed with the web bot predicting storms because they are part of any long term weather forecast.

I did not saw any forecast from the web-bot about storms in the Autumn, what I saw was a forecast for a cold winter.

The web bot seems fairly accurate on these two events considering the storm in New England and the storm in Italy, with both being predicted 4 months out for a very specific window.

Sorry, I did not saw that Italy forecast, could you please tell me when it was made? Thanks.

Everyone wants to bash the earthquake aspect of the ALTA run because it hasn't happened, but none of the haters on here have anything to say about these other specific events.

I am not a "hater", but I have yet to see how the forecast was correct, and all the posts that I have made about it (both here and in the other thread) have been ignored.