This is a common way for climate modelers to forecast major heating.

FORBES: Throwing Cold Water On The U.N.'s Fat Tail

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 forecast a rise of 18-59cm this century.

ECONOMIST: A meltdown tinged with acid

The network has enabled new revelations about ocean dynamics that are helping society understand and forecast global climate.

UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

So far, laboratory experiments meant to measure how plants will respond to warmer temperatures in the future haven't worked well, and computer models to forecast regional climate effects have fared no better, NASA and university researchers recently concluded.

WSJ: A Science of Signs of Spring

Argo data, along with satellite and other ocean data, feed into regional and global forecast models used for ocean and climate prediction over seasons, years, and decades.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Mr McCallum admitted in a news conference in April that seasonal forecasting was still in its infancy - a cross between climate change prediction and tomorrow's weather forecast.

BBC: Met Office cools summer forecast

They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.

FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination

The physical basis for seasonal climate prediction lies, to a great extent, in being able to forecast the slowly varying interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans.

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