«The recent dramatic
cooling of the average heat content of the upper oceans, and thus a significant negative
radiative imbalance of the climate system for at least a two year period, that was mentioned in the Climate Science weblog posting of July 27, 2006, should be a wake - up call to the climate community that the focus on predictive modeling as the framework to communicate to policymakers on climate policy has serious issues as to its
ability to accurately predict the behavior of the climate system.