> Climate change is one of the long term predictions that has been consistently confirmed with each passing year.
Has it though? What was even the prediction? It seems to me that at some point people just gave up at pinpointing the specifics of the problem and basically decided that the fact that the climate is changing (never really stopped since the ice age) is the problem that needs fixing.
I really fail to see real consistent confirmation that isn't some indirect measurement using unproven models, or stuff like "we found some random farmers journal, compared temperature and crop harvesting dates and it's totes different from now"
Were there any real predictions from the past that came true on this topic?
Sure, Svante Arrhenius predicted that burning coal would increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and lead to warming. Both of those things have happened in the 120 years since he made that prediction.
A comic may not be the best source out there. But I tend to trust Randall Munroe on his research work and claims. Here's his graph: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Has it though? What was even the prediction? It seems to me that at some point people just gave up at pinpointing the specifics of the problem and basically decided that the fact that the climate is changing (never really stopped since the ice age) is the problem that needs fixing.
I really fail to see real consistent confirmation that isn't some indirect measurement using unproven models, or stuff like "we found some random farmers journal, compared temperature and crop harvesting dates and it's totes different from now"
Were there any real predictions from the past that came true on this topic?