Predictions on climate change were based on the rapidly increasing emissions. Action was taken.
Predictions were based on us continuing to emit a certain amount of CO2...the fact is that we, as a species, emitted 25% more CO2 than was anticipated....add to that, not one, but two very strong el nino events...had they anticipated those el nino events, the predictions would have been even more dire, and therefore even further from reality...
I realize that you have probably had very little exposure to actual science and get your information from people who are perfectly willing to lie to you...but the fact is that in this past year, peer reviewed, published science said that polar ice is stable, sea level rise continues at the normal level it has for centuries, the snow cover in the northern hemisphere is growing, there are fewer tropical storms and tornadoes, deserts are shrinking, the globe is greening, climate models are terribly flawed, the climate is driven by the sun and ocean cycles, and it was warmer 1000 years ago than it is today. That is what peer reviewed, published science has said.
In this past year, peer reviewed, published science has pointed out that:
- The globe's islands are growing...not sinking as predicted by climate science
- The Sahara desert is shrinking
- The consensus...isn't, as more than 500 papers were published that question it
- Storm energy is declining,
- The arctic is cooler now than it has been for most of the past 10,000 years
- Oceans are less acidic with rising CO2
- Sea level was over 8 feet higher 6000 years ago
- The polar vortex warming link was disproven
- The predictions made in 2000 were wrong
- The sun has been driving the warming of the past few decades
- Electric cars are worse than diesel when it comes to CO2
- Grain production has quadrupled as the population has doubled
- Great swaths of the globe have seen no warming for the past quarter century
- The pause is real
- Greenland's glaciers are mostly stable or growing
- The world's tide gages show no unusual sea level rise
- There is no gulf stream collapse as was predicted
- Arctic ice has grown over the past 13 years
- The Medieval warm period was warmer than the present and global in nature
- Renewable energy is creating energy poverty
- 400% coral recovery since 2014
- Global weather has become less extreme
- Cold weather deaths are rising (due in part to increased energy cost...ie renewables
- Biodiversity is more harmed by cooling than warming
- The warming since 1979 is entirely natural
- 74% of the globe has greened since 1981
- The equatorial sea level has fallen since the 1600's
- There is no empirical evidence demonstrating a human / climate link
- CO2 is a negligible factor in climate
- The arctic was 4.6C warmer in the 1930's
I will gladly provide you with links to the peer reviewed, published papers that make the above statements...while i doubt that you can provide a link to any peer reviewed, published paper disputing any of them.. So much for your consensus...actual science is winning out...