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52 sats \ 3 replies \ @Murch 8h \ parent \ on: Are humans responsible for climate change? To what degree? AskSN
I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that that predictions are not in the process of coming true. The article describes what a temperature increase of 3-7°C would do, and we're at +1.25°C.
We have had unprecedented droughts in Europe and North America, an uptick in wildfires, hurricanes, and floods. The Maldives have experienced erosion in 90% of their country and are spending half of their national budget on combatting the effects of rising sea levels, we're seeing increased desertification and exhaustion of ground water in other parts of the world. So, the predictions seem directionally correct, if perhaps not completely accurate in magnitude.
The UN did not predict "unprecedented droughts" and they did not predict "an uptick in wildfires, hurricanes, and floods". The UN's hypothesis was that nations would be "wiped off of the face of the earth".
Why didn't you mention the benefits of a warmer planet? If you can't defend the UN's falsified hypothesis, then you should at least steelman how humanity gains from a warmer climate.
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It seems silly to me to reject the scientific consensus on basis of a cherry-picked sensationally phrased prediction in a newspaper article from 36 years ago not having come to pass. If you read the rest of the article, you see the desertification and droughts right there mentioned next to it.
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