As if natural destruction along the East Coast from Hurricane Matthew wasn’t enough, manmade bluster blew into Florida earlier this month in the form of tropical storm experts Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. Of course the ferocity of the hurricane was blamed on “carbon pollution,” that’s a given.

But beyond the cyclonic rhetoric focused on this one dramatic seasonal event, it seems a portion of the science profession, largely academics, have discovered that they know the future of Earth’s entire climate. Their crystal ball is climate models. Their experience is located in front of a computer screen.