Based of the ridiculous 10
year forecast chart from the previous BGR article about iPad sales, 2012 will see 54 Million iPads shipped.
Not exact matches
Also known as ultra-high definition, or UHD, sets, the devices should bring in more retail sales dollars than any other «emerging technology» gadget this
year, as we can see in this
chart from Statista, which is based on a
forecast by the Consumer Technology Association.
Last
year, McKinsey & Co.
charted the results of S&P 500 companies from 1985 to present day against analyst
forecasts.
As the article
chart below shows, McKinsey is
forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20
years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30
years.
Merton has overspent two
years running, but this
year's # 6million
forecast overspend is considerably worse (
chart 1, page 3)- a pattern repeated across numerous councils.
We have a lot of other issues — measurement biases, problems with historical reconstructions, role of the sun, etc — but this
chart highlights the central problem — that catastrophic warming
forecasts make no sense based on the last 100 +
years of actual data.
Hansen's
chart is frustrating because his
forecasts never converge exactly, even 20
years in the past.
So it is no surprise that one can see in the IPCC
chart below that the main model cases are already diverging in the first five
years of the
forecast period from reality, just like the Superbowl predictors of the stock market failed four
years in a row.