Comment by native_samples

Unfortunately, ever since I discovered that the temperature record is itself the output of modelling, I can no longer have much confidence in climatologists asserting that they can or have successfully predicted temperatures. That's a neat trick if you're managing to predict actual observations or actual historical data. If what you're predicting is data that will soon have a new version issued to bring it in line with the predictions, that's much less impressive. Editing your data is meant to be taboo in science because once you open that Pandora's box it can rapidly lead to nonsensical outcomes, regardless of how well intentioned the 'fixes' might be. But climatology opened that box.