Every computer model predicts that the entire troposphere, or roughly the bottom 40,000 feet of the atmosphere, should be warming rapidly. Most models even predict that much of the warming accelerates with height. If that was the 1996 consensus of my profession, it was largely a consensus of ostriches, not scientists. Not very long. Here, for once, eyeballs have triumphed over the computer.
Most people use weather forecasts to plan the future.
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change was a response to a climate forecast. When it finally became clear that Washington was going to get buried in the last snowstorm, the federal government shut itself down.