I agree, I have very little trust in all those climate projections, even today. That being said the industrial rise of China and South-East Asia happened since,

I agree, I have very little trust in all those climate projections, even today. That being said the industrial rise of China and South-East Asia happened since, and I doubt those were baked into any prediction in 1989 (like I doubt any prediction for the evolution of the world for the next 30y will be worth anything). If you look at the evolution of co2 emissions over that period, those two regions represent the bulk of the increase, with western countries rather dropping. So you can argue that the world we are looking at now is definitely worst that the world they were contemplating then. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...