I may be off base, but seems to me the story is that the scientists that were global warmists were under enormous pressure, for both science and payroll, to publish 'proof.' It wasn't there, at least not yet. So they went with models that would look acceptable, afterall, that's what was wanted.
They're burned now.
That doesn't mean that pollutants aren't causing change, but the ability to prove it has now been ramped up.
I think that there are many people who look at science as having some crystal ball to predict exactly what is going to happen.
I know of, conservatively, 2 dozen persons who have died from cancer. Some went in a few months, some in a few years. Some lingered for several years while others actually had a remission prior to passing.
When you take the science of a disease in one person and it can't be determined how long that patient will live inside a few years, one could imagine how difficult it is to predict a global event.
So your point is that science cannot predict many things accurately because there are likely many unaccounted for factors. True.
So why do the global warming freaks push this shit as absolute certainty we're gonna die unless we spend billions of other people's money to solve a problem that may not exist?