I could predict that, it's going to rain sometime next month, blah, blah, blah...If you think climate scientists even try to predict things like those you mentioned you really don't know much. Those things are weather not climate.
Climate scientists have predicted that the 30 year running mean of temperature would continue to rise and it has. Here's a link to a comparison of climate model projections to observed data up to 2011.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/02/2011-updates-to-model-data-comparisons/But as scientifically illiterate as you sound to me it's probably above your comprehension level.
Cryologists have predicted that late summer Arctic sea ice could disappear around 2040-2050. At the rate it's going lately that could happen by 2020. They've also predicted that land ice in the form of glaciers and ice sheets would continue to melt off and that is happening.
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/future/sea_ice.htmlhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-sea-ice-loss-implicationshttp://www.colorado.edu/news/features/earths-glaciers-and-ice-caps-are-shrinkingThey predicted that sea level would rise and it has, faster than many of the predictions.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-6.htmlClimate scientists have predicted the expansion of the subtropical zones away from the equator and that appears to be happening.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121003/srep00702/full/srep00702.htmlThey have predicted increased humidity because of global warming which has happened and that would lead to heavier rainfall events and that appears to be happening but it may be a bit early to say that definitively.
http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/full-report/national-climate-changeI could go on but those are enough for now.
"Global warming" had to be changed to "climate change"...The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed in 1988, long before the supposed change from GW to CC. I've seen papers from the 1950's that used both terms. To be accurate Global Warming is a subset of Climate Change which covers more than just warming.
Here's your "13 years of cooling":
http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/TempEscalator.gifYou are right that long range climate prediction is difficult but I'll bet you can't find another method that's been more accurate.
