Remember my previous post about past abysmal attempts to predict Solar activity? Well, it seems they haven't learned their lesson, and they're having another go.

New Solar Cycle Prediction.An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. "If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

There were competing arguments last time they tried to make a prediction, but it turns out that no one was actually correct.
The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct. "It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way."
I'm shocked. Deeply shocked. You mean to tell me that scientists' models for predicting future climatic activity are not to be relied upon? How can this be? After all, the argument is closed: the models prove that there is going to be catastrophic global warming!