[dragonwriter]

> read some comments today from people who unironically believe that humanity will be wiped out within 12 years.

If they are the widely reported ones for which that timeframe is cited, that doesn't seem to be the consequence they were talking about. (Yes, the phrase “the world will end” was used, but the world ending is a common hyperbolic metaphor for things other than the end of humanity—and even with the end of humanity it's still a hyperbolic metaphor, since that does not literally end the world.)

> Al Gore said that 20 years ago and here we still are.

No, he didn't.

[wowzap]

You're right, he said the ice caps would be gone by 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI). How are they looking?

[pwinnski]

Not great.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/