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Are you referring specifically to climate as in weather? The article is about forecasting a range of future events, not specifically weather.

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Climate as a pattern of weather over a long period of time. If the climate is increasingly unpredictable, I would think that it wouldn't really effect our ability to make short-term predictions, like a few days out.

But our ability to forecast weather on a longer timeline, like for industrial forecasting, is calibrated on historical weather patterns. But with weather being more erratic and unusual, I don't understand how AI will be forecasting with the models they have now.

I think you're misunderstanding my point. The headline's usage of the term "forecasting" is not referring to weather forecasting, or climate forecasting. It's referring to forecasting a wide range of possible future events.

For example, predicting which party will win an election, or if there will be a major cyber event in the next year, or the price of Gold in 6 months. Presumably a few of the questions could be related to climate as you're thinking of.

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