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by scrollaway 1794 days ago
You're not seeing correct predictions because you're choosing to look at the worst ones and you're not looking at the more average ones.

I've seen dozens of instances of fairly scary predictions from 2000ish which were originally for 2050 and are coming true the last five years.

Weather maps predicting scorching heat in France which i remember thinking "there's no way this will ever be that bad", and what do you know, it is that bad.

Warnings about floods, glaciers entirely disappearing, heat domes.

Warnings about the possibility of methane reservoirs releasing into the atmosphere as permafrost melts.

These aren't warnings anymore, they're news stories from the past couple years.

Do you somehow believe it's just a coincidence? That it'll get better, we don't need to do anything?

Everything about what you're saying is a choice you are making. You are choosing to dismiss evidence. Choosing to adopt an attitude which lets you ignore reality. Choosing to put your fingers in your ears. Choosing to compare events that happen over millennia to events that happen over decades.

Make better choices.