Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald now tracking Irma using a climate change equation, claims he's '100% correct'

LOL.

Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald thinks he’s as good at predicting the path of Category 5 Irma as the scientists:

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/905093884077899776

…if a scientific illiterate can take basic info climate change from scientific journals and correctly predict progress timing and degree..

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 5, 2017

..of intensity growth based on 1 piece of data plugged in2 an equation, maybe deniers should realize climatologists know more than they do.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 5, 2017

Real hurricane scientist Ryan Maue weighs in:

I am a hurricane scientist and this is bullshit. That's all. https://t.co/cqbiKAqasZ

— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) September 5, 2017

Others agree:

Folks like this hurt advocates of climate change readiness more than anything else. Asinine is the kindest way to describe it. https://t.co/ufw3iAnrvV

— Stephen Stirling (@SStirling) September 5, 2017

If you're not a scientist stop playing a scientist. Hurricane intensity changes remain complex and not entirely understood. https://t.co/BrV6Soo8ja

— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) September 5, 2017

I'm not a mathematician. I used a bullshit equation to predict this tweet. 100% correct. https://t.co/cogUdyOojX

— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) September 5, 2017

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Nah, everyone should laugh at him:

Is it wrong to laugh? https://t.co/ySOYVARAd4

— Ian Shelton (@IanShelton1997) September 5, 2017

Update. Eichenwald deleted his tweet but not before he challenged Maue’s educational credentials (Maue has a PhD):

OMFG this is literally the funniest thing in the history of Twitter pic.twitter.com/JjmoVOCw6Z

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 5, 2017

And then Eichenwald showed his work, fwiw:

It continues to get worse… pic.twitter.com/FOvxsyVGQ1

— Karen ? (@KarenNativeCA) September 5, 2017

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Hurricane Irma now Category 5; Direct hit on the islands ‘will rewrite history there’ https://t.co/vkYdElVIra

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 5, 2017