"They still had hope back then. Reading that hope today hurts." - why? Nothing severe has happened yet. Article probably cherry picks the "best" predictions, too.
That sounds like the man who jumped off a tall building, and at each foor on the way down was heard to say "so far, so good..."
By we, you are talking middle to upper income countries not the poor countries in Africa and especially no the islands states in the Pacific. Or maybe you are not one of the relatives of the poor souls were lost in 50C heatwave in Canada last week.
If those do not apply to you, sure we are here. Just add, at the moment.
As of now it is difficult to find any significant damage that is not actually the result of direct human mismanagement that they try to blame on climate change.
Edit: no, not climate change. Things like diverting water and pumping wells dry, planting the wrong trees and preventing small fires that leads to huge fires, for example.
Every single one of those things has already started happening.
Sea level rise is already starting to threaten low lying coastal areas, including places like Miami beach where sea water is more and more frequently seeping up through porous bedrock and flooding roads and other public spaces. It's also exacerbating the effects of king tides and creating far more destructive storm surges.
Parts of India are more frequently hitting the wet bulb temperature where humans can no longer survive, something which will occur with increasing frequency.
And we're smack in the middle of a major mass extinction event.
What more do you want?
The places with "wet bulb temperature" probably are uninhabited already. Such places have always existed (death valley perhaps an example in the US).
I don't claim climate doesn't change, just the dramatic downsides don't seem to happen somehow.
The least you could do is use Google before making uneducated claims like this:
https://news.yahoo.com/hotter-human-body-handle-pakistan-095...
> Jacobabad crossed the 35C wet bulb threshold in July 1987, then again in June 2005, June 2010 and July 2012. Each time the boundary may have been breached for only a few hours, but a three-day average temperature has been recorded hovering around 34C in June 2010, June 2001 and July 2012. The dry bulb temperature is often over 50C in the summer.
> just the dramatic downsides don't seem to happen somehow.
If you're ignoring when it happens, changing goalposts, interpreting facts to fit your preconceived notions, and dismissing things based on the No True Scotsman fallacy, I could see how you might think that.
Meanwhile, the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching so often now it can't recover, extreme weather has become more common, glaciers are retreating, coastal areas are eroding, and on and on.
But if you want to keep ignoring what's happening right in front of your eyes, there's nothing I or anyone else can do about it except shake our heads, sigh, and continue to have no hope anything will change.
For example a meteorite could hit earth and wipe out all life. Clearly we should pour all resources into building space ships.