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The summary is not so nice, because it left out an important detail:

It also links to the wrong "Old Farmer's Almanac" description. Proper link here.

Yep, 62% is not impressive neither per see. How does this forecasting system is better than the Old Farmer's Almanac ? It is unclear to me.

After all the three sisters have been planted together for centuries for how well they work in harmony and the beans adding nitrogen to the soil and the squash keeping the roots cool and moist with their leaves would be useful in a Martian greenhouse. Seems like the most logical choice while providing a nice variety to the Martian farmers.

A factor affecting model predictions would have been that the normal 11 year solar cycle was somehow unexpectedly stuck in minimal activity for quite a few extra years until 2010. This factor could not have been anticipated by climate scientists in their models (and the same factor in past has ironically been claimed by some climate change "skeptics" as an alternative theory for higher global average temperatures measured during a period of solar minimum). Note that the last time an extended solar activity minimum happened for an 70 year period it caused the Little Ice Age, whereas we're still seeing a yearly decrease in North polar ice.

...We are developing the ability to forecast "space weather", thus leading to a new field, astrometeorology...

Does this mean we've finally given up on trying to forecast earth weather? Time to start up the The Old Atronaut's Almanac

http://www.almanac.com/weathercenter/howwepredict.php

More on Global Cooling:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25348657-401,00.html

I love this quote by Jay Lehr of The Heartland Institute: "And, if we were to try to reduce greenhouse gases with China and India controlling way more than we do and they have boldly said they are not going to cripple their economy by following suit, our impact would have no change in temperature at all."

Point blank, people: You can't trust your local, highly trained meteorologist to predict tomorrow's weather, so how can you trust a bunch of politicians and climate scientists looking for funding to predict the weather 50 to 100 years out? Most of you will be dead before you realize it was a scam all along.

Remember the hole in the ozone scare? Turns out it's a natural phenomena after all... Now, we're stuck with R134a instead of the far more efficient R12, not to mention all these other products that supposedly did such irreparable harm...

http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/beck/230899.htm

Patrick Moore (founder of Greenpeace) said, "much of the environmental movement has been hijacked by extremist activists who use the language of the environment for a movement that has more to do with class struggle and anti-corporatism."

Don't believe the hype!

The Farmers' Almanac publishers are highly secretive about the method used to make its predictions, only stating publicly that it is a "top secret mathematical and astronomical formula, that relies on sunspot activity, tidal action, planetary position and many other factors."

From their own site they say "We derive our weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792."

I'm not trying to denigrate science done from the agricultural perspective, and they do have a nice and informative web site, but the above "formula" sounds very like paddock pastry to me and does not fill me with trust with regard to predicting weather trends in a manner useful to scholarship, especially of the form that dictates broad scale eco policy. Call me a skeptic, but if they aren't open about their methods I can't trust them.

This one acre model runs up to 4 weeks on one 20lb tank of propane. One 20lb tank contains up to 19 lbs of liquid propane. 19 lbs is 8600g. Propane's molecular weight is 44.1g/mol. Of course you get 3 mole of CO2 per mole of propane, so one tank comes to... 585 moles of CO2(44.0g/mol) which is 25.7kg

That's per acre per month. Per day, that's .85 kg (1.8lb) or less than we exhale in a day.

I was just about to post that Actually this won't be a blue moon since the last full moon officially fell on Halloween. But I looked it up and it seems I am wrong. The press (including I beleive NPR) made a big deal about this year being the first time in decades that the Full Moon fell on Halloween, but it seems they were wrong, unless they meant it fell on Halloween night but after midnight.

I'd just as soon try to memorize the Charge of the Light Brigade as that bizarre poem. It ain't exactly "Thirty days hath September."

But I think I could manage to make four paper strips and fold them around a pencil, or build this cardboard contraption, or even try tattooing this stuff on various body parts like the guy in Memento.

I might try this interactive calendar to find the Doomsday to start the algorithm process, but then I wouldn't need to remember the algorithm, would I? I would be most likely to consult my desk copy of Farmer's Almanac, then the only thing I would have to remember is where I put it.

Resisting the urge to shout "How are you, gentlemen?" every time I pass the "gentlemen's room" at work.