Sue Over Bad Hurricane Forecasts?

J.J. Jackson* | December 4, 2007

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida’s most famous hotel owner, Harris Rosen, lashed out at hurricane expert Dr. William Gray for his gloomy storm predictions saying they have damaged state tourism.Rosen said he believes Florida lost billions of dollars in business because of Gray’s outlook and even threatened a lawsuit.”Look, doctor, you’ve made these forecasts and you were wrong once,” Rosen said. “You made the forecast and you were wrong twice. Are you going to continue to make these forecasts?”

The hotel mogul said surveys show 70 percent of guests not returning to his hotels cited hurricane fears as the reason why.

“I suspect it costs the state billions of dollars,” Rosen said. “Five thousand people scheduled to attend my association meeting and I’m looking at Orlando and it is September or October, I may say, ‘Why take a chance.’

It’s going to be really hard to sue someone over their opinion unless you can show that he ignored information and made obviously inaccurate statements and you can tie that in to some sort of malice. But hey, could be an interesting case. Might be a good time to put on trial the methods some of these people use to make their “predictions. While we’re at it, let’s make Al Gore a co-defendant.

Once again, if you can’t even accurately predict the weather five months in the future, how do you expect us to believe that you can model doom and gloom for the next century?

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