Developed countries need to get serious about the need to
improve predictability of climate finance and put new commitments to real money on the table by COP24, including for adaptation and for the Green Climate Fund.
The main objectives, set for the WCRP at its inception and still valid today, are to determine
the predictability of climate and to determine the effect of human activities on climate.
The two overarching objectives of the WCRP are: to determine
the predictability of climate; and to determine the effect of human activities on climate.
The decadal prediction experiments are designed to assess
the predictability of climate (natural and forced) changes on time scales up to 10 years.
Current research interests are in decadal variability and
predictability of climate.
The objection here is to the misuse of these facts to make unsubstantiated claims about
the predictability of climate.