prediction 1959: self-driving cars and fishy walls by 1984...

and :

2025 before 2032

and : http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/8789

and :

• Well Liz B, should a mini ice age hit us on the head, we can still quickly dig those naughty mountains of coal, but preferably we'd have the wind turbines spinning faster... But in the mean time, climate change is real and is associated to THE RISE OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE. Even the few "real scientists" who are denialists know that the relationship is strong. More CO2 in the atmosphere means higher temperature or vice versa. 

  Meanwhile as 2015 in on track to become the warmest year on record and considering that most of the warmest years have been in the 21st century contrary to what you state, even should a "mini-ice-age come along, this would only retard the inevitability of the massive warming we are facing. It would only make things far worse. Please read from top. Especially about the dam between Greenland and Iceland to stop the ice advancing  to the predicted Ice Age in the 1940s. 

  And to Dennis Bird, let me say we might not know PRECISELY what will happen with warming, but we know statistically that flooding, drought and storm activity will be more "intense" and that the sea level will have risen by a minimum of 45 cm by 2100. The top figure from computerised analysis for the sea level rise by the end of this century is around 6 metres. The insurance industry is already on the level.

And by the way, you might notice some "inventions" that make the "Back to the Future" movies a bit pale in the gill.

• By Gus Leonisky at 21 Jul 2015 - 2:05pm

One of the world's leading experts on permafrost has told BBC News that the recent rate of warming of this frozen layer of earth is "unbelievable".

Prof Vladimir Romanovsky said that he expected permafrost in parts of Alaska would start to thaw by 2070.

Researchers worry that methane frozen within the permafrost will be released, exacerbating climate change

The professor said a rise in permafrost temperatures in the past four years convinced him warming was real.

Permafrost is perennially frozen soil that has been below zero degrees C for at least two years.

read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34540414

The chart above is falling bang on my predictions made a few years ago on this site... I am not claiming thick ankles as anyone with knowledge of past aeons and a pocket calculator can do it.

But it's worrying. So far, the increments of global warming has been 0.015 to 0.03 with a few spikes at 0.05 degrees C increases with a general trend of 0.03 degrees C per annum. Roughly this would create an increase of 3 degrees C per century, which of course is one degree above the limit recommended by the IPCC. We've got some work to do. Reduce emissions of CO2 and all that.

What the chart above shows is a sudden increment of 0.15 degree C which, should this trend continues AND it can continue due to the EXTRA amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, would means an increase of 1.5 DEGREES C BY DECADE which is in line with my worst predictions posted circa 2005 on this site. 

As things goes, it could also be that for a couple of years we won't see such a fierce increase but then it could go as high as 0.3 or 0.5 degrees C per annum bringing in a 3 to 5 DEGREES C INCREASE PER DECADE.

Brace yourself.

The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Americas is bearing down on Mexico's Pacific coast, threatening a "potentially catastrophic" landfall.

Mexican authorities have begun evacuating residents ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Patricia.

The storm is comparable to Typhoon Haiyan, which killed 6,300 people in the Philippines in 2013, the World Meteorological Organization says.

A state of emergency has been declared in three states in Patricia's path.

The category five hurricane is expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon or evening, with winds of 325km/h (200mph).

Hurricane Patricia: Key questions

The US National Hurricane Center said on its website: "Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Patricia moving northward toward landfall in south-western Mexico."

The centre added that it was the strongest storm it had recorded in the eastern Pacific or the Atlantic.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34614864

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The EXTRA energy developed by the presence of human added EXTRA CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing the differential of potential storms. The centre of this Hurricane was below 900 millibars (894), yesterday... El Nino has also added much warmer waters in this part of the northern eastern Pacific that, so far, it has created an unusual amount of Hurricanes (there is one lurking as well east of Hawaii but it's moving northward).