If we were in a period of cooling, wouldn't it be wise to predict warming? At some point you would be right. There's a difference between predicting warming and the global warming claimed by Gore, et al.
“seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral”
but those, politically connected, seven represented the consensus reported by the media, while the 44 and 20 stayed quietly, or were kept quiet, out of the public fray over it
todays gw ‘consensus’ is managed the same way today
the gw promoters often speak of the 1000s of scientists who support man made gw - the majority of whom are not climatolgists or meteorologist, among whom there is no consensus