In the past 2 decades:
* Big business on the whole went from ignoring or denying climate change to embracing solutions.
* Innovation in alternative energy tech and its production has driven prices for non-carbon energy down to parity with coal.
* The political world has gone from ignoring it to signing on to international support for climate agreements.
* People are aware of the issue and it's a central issue to billions of voters globally.
* Carbon capture and other methods of reducing atmospheric carbon are being developed and scaled up significantly.
> I find your line of reasoning maddening
I can't prove causality but any good faith scientific argument needs to at least consider the hypothesis that the efforts of the last two decades might have had an effect. Simply ignoring the changes and saying that the original predictions were "wrong" is not a good faith argument, let alone a scientific one.