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I want to know if there is a single source where people's predictions regarding climate change are tracked, proven correct and proven false - that would be a hu

I want to know if there is a single source where people's predictions regarding climate change are tracked, proven correct and proven false - that would be a huge credibility boost. I don't follow this so I won't know enough to have an opinion. but it's always been the case that we have only 12-15 years to solve this climate crisis. I'm reaching my 40s and this has been the case since I was a teenager. I remember, we'd be rallying around marches with, 'save the world, make it a better place, for you..' People are making confident assertions of what is going to happen in the future like it's nothing.. I mean 'predict the future' - is there any other context other than climate change where you can confidently predict the future and be taken seriously? I'm fairly ignorant on this subject, but, I really want to see a non-biased place where these predictions are shown correct and wrong..

adrianN 5y ago
"Solve the climate crisis" has moved goalposts several times in the last decade, which is why it always seems to be a few years in the future. In the 90s "stop climate change" meant staying well below 1° of warming. This ship has sailed. Until recently "stop climate change" meant staying below 1.5° (the Paris Accord), but that is basically unachievable now without heroic effort, so goalposts in Realpolitik have moved to staying below 2°, but even here essentially no government implements the necessary policy to achieve this goal.