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It has always amazed me how accurate fortune tellers (for a nomial fee) can be. Many of the predictions I received in my younger years have become true. I did have a dark-haired girl-friend, I have travelled in my lifetime, I have changed jobs and I have lost someone close to me.

The business of fortune-telling is not confined to the local psychic, carnival or 800 # any longer. In fact, Alan Greenspan made some comments in 2007 "we will have a recession" that seemed prophetic. However, according to some business textbooks I have, we have always had expanding and contracting business cycles. So, saying we will have a recession is about like saying, I predict warm temperatures in July. Speaking of which...

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May29/0,4670,SCIClimateScience,00.html

Sharon Hays, White House associate science director, has compiled some reports that include such ambiguous and yet always true "predictions". These are some of my favorites.

"In Los Angeles alone yearly heat fatalities could increase by more than 1,000 by 2080" Every summer people die from heat. This "increase" is not stated in percentage terms, could be 1/4% per year- who knows. The report predicts the weather between now and 2080. My local weatherman can't be accurate with next week. 

"More death and damage from wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters and extreme weather." We can only hope? People have died from natural disasters before and if there are more people in the future. Yes more people in harms way, especially in coastal areas. 

"Increased insect infestations and food- and waterborne microbes and diseases." Yep, we've had bugs and germs a while.

"...Seattle's energy consumption would increase by 146 percent with the warming that could come by the end of the century." Well if 72 yrs is not a good enough prediction, maybe 92 will work. Doing the math, this increase would mean Seattle needs 3/4 of 1% more power per year, a formidable task..

My prediction, summers will be hot, natural disasters will occur, we will have bugsand germs and I predict people will want electricity and other resources in the future. I wonder what Ms Hays charges for a reading.