The problem with predicting doom is, sooner or later people are going to notice the lack of doom.
One reason the rhetoric has become so overheated is that the climate-change activists increasingly lack a scientific basis for their most exaggerated claims. As physicist Gordon Fulks of the Cascade Policy Institute puts it: “CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea-level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea-ice melt that is not occurring . . . and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring.” He points out that there has been no net new global-warming increase since 1997 even though the human contribution to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 25 percent since then. This throws into doubt all the climate models that have been predicting massive climate dislocation.
It’s probable that man has warmed the planet some. It might even be that we’ve completely ruined the planet.
But even if we have, any plan to fix it has to be realistic. And that’s where the science ends and the politics starts – you’ve got to find something that fixes the problem without creating bigger problems in other spheres (e.g. doesn’t plunge the world into war or poverty).
And for all the work that’s gone into the science, the politics is total crap. Because all the guys you see in these rallies are not scientists, they’re political activists. They’ll line up and sign a petition to stop supporting oil companies, then they’ll jump in their car and drive home – while the leaders hop in their private planes instead.
Something should go here, maybe later. 
The problem with predicting doom is, sooner or later people are going to notice the lack of doom?
This year, 2014, in New Zealand, we have had heavy rainfall and other winter conditions in the summer, from January to March, and more sunny weather than usual in the winter months to quite a surprising extreme.
Add to that, we have no ozone layer over New Zealand anymore and so therefore we need to implement environmental and also economic policy that suits our best interests in this and other areas.
Heavy rain happens from time to time, sign of doom it is not.