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Accurate forecast of atypical storm telling

Peter Sielman Salem

Publication: The Day

Published 12/14/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 12/13/2012 07:09 PM

I have read in the newspaper and watched on television some very excellent detailed post facto explanations of why the eye of Hurricane Sandy made a hard left turn into southern New Jersey and then curled around Connecticut.

What I find astounding is that this scenario was predicted days before it happened. The weather forecasters and computer modeling that produced this accurate prediction provided a measure of the progress that science has made in explaining how the world really works.

I hope that this example will give second thoughts to the rain-dancers, the religious extremists and the greedy climate change deniers. Science has proven itself to be a reliable basis for making decisions about our collective future.

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