But we're supposed to believe they know what the climate will be 100 years from now.
“Heat waves are more intense. They last longer.”
Longer than when? Longer than the ones that came and went and came again in the 1700s-1800s, including those that nearly destroyed most of the ranches in Southern California. Farming in Southern California only made a comeback once irrigation techniques became better established and water was drawn from mountain sources and later the Colorado river, supplementing pumping from underground sources.
In reality the history of California weather is written in the land, from the coasts to the mountains - periods of multiyear droughts and “wet periods”, both with less consistency of one or the other than in many other part of the country; areas that have tended to be either a generally “wetter” clime or a generally drier one, with the exemptions being briefer than California has experienced sometimes.
You’re asking a lot. Climat Alchemists weren’t even able to accurately predict the path of a storm whose velocity they attribute to mankind, just 24 hours in advance. And now you expect them to foretell months? And be accountable?!
Want to know what winter will be like? Ask the Indians.
It was October and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old secrets of weather prediction. When he looked at the sky he couldn’t tell what the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect extra firewood to be prepared.
But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, “Is the coming winter going to be cold?”
“It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,” the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later he called the National Weather Service again. “Does It still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?”
“Yes,” the man at National Weather Service again replied, “it’s going to be a very cold winter.”
The diligent Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later the Chief called the National Weather Service again. “Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?”
“Absolutely,” the man replied. “It’s looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever.”
“How can you be so sure?” the Chief asked.
The weatherman replied, “The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.”