No-one’s arguing a cliff edge other than media spinning drama for clicks.

The direction of travel has been clear, understood and consistent for decades, as has the messaging from the scientific community around it.

You seem to be confusing a bunch of cherry-picked newspaper clippings with scientific research.

Not sure what sort of "coming true" you guys are expecting. We're looking at a pretty unusual level of drought, fires, and flooding disasters all over the world, new temperature records almost every year, and faster temperature increases and ice loss than the IPCC had projected.

Back in 2007 the book Six Degrees was published, with one chapter per degree of warming, summing up the science of what results we would see. We're at one degree and everything in that chapter is happening now.