If your predictions do not seem to come to pass, merely claim that simulations show that your predictions will prove to be
true over timescales of many decades and that potential disasters will occur if your suggestions are not followed.
Not exact matches
The same appears to be
true over longer
timescales.
Some of these episodes are based on climatology (i.e., averages
over decadal
timescales) as previously mentioned, so they don't allow the study of interannual variability but do give strong evidence of prevailing conditions in the longer term; this is especially
true of the southern hemisphere.
The few long droughts that have occurred in Australia
over the past ∼ 100 years seem exceptional, but this may not be
true over longer
timescales.
It is
true that
over geological
timescales tectonics open and close «ocean gateways» (eg Drake Passage, Tasmanian Gateway, Indonesian Gateway, Fram Strait, Central American Isthmus) and this has almost certainly altered climate
over the Cenozoic (65Ma — present).