Another dire prediction. OMG! What are we going to do?

What we do is deal with it IF it happens and use the saved funds for proven projects.

I've been reading about doomsday predictions since the mid-'60's. I've read a lot of hype about each one. Got hooked in the early days but, funny thing, I've never seen one come true. It's all been BS for grant money and BS for political control. This is more of the same.

Since Katrina, we've had annual projections as to the numbers of hurricanes to expect in a season, that were... inflated when the respective seasons wound down.
I'm not denying warming or climate change. I just think the panic button is being hit a little too often and hard. It brings to mind the story of the boy who cried wolf...

To achieve their results, the team examined 20 climate models that consistently simulate major rainfall reorganization during extreme El NiƱo events. They found a substantial increase in events from the present-day through the next 100 years as the eastern Pacific Ocean warmed in response to global warming.
Here we go with the "models" again, whereas here is the reality:

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Haven't we supposedly had this global warming thing going on since at least 1950? And still there's no statistically significant change to the pattern?

Oh wait, I get it now. The models are corect ...it's that Ol' Mother Earth is wrong. LOL

@ Gyre & Sinister - I know what you mean, in that I cringe every time some expert hops on TV and proclaims such and such tornado was the result of global warming. Its as wrong as saying some cherry-picked graph you post over and over means it's not happening.

I think though, that the media is finally starting to smarten up a bit (well except Fox) and are being a little less "alarmist" in their reporting. It is still the case though, that a newspaper headline in big black letters screaming "70 killed by tornado fueled by global warming" is going to sell better than "Typical tornado results in 70 deaths".

Intellegent people look past the headlines. On the whole, though, people are not that smart.