Common ground; if there is a problem we need to solve it and if we need an engineering exercise, let's go through the motions anyway as long as we cause no harm.
I expect that models will not only improve by better science and much better computing power (e.g. soil moisture, detailed topography, biomass), but they will also accurately predict which engineering solutions will have the desired effects. There is in climate, like in weather, a butterfly effect that the tipping point scare-mongers want to keep for their exclusive use. Once models are adequate we will see that small changes can have big positive results.