When I was in elementary school (early 90's) we were taught that half of New York would be underwater by 2020. Obviously didn't happen. Stop reading the news, they're fear-mongers and outlandish predictions have been happening for decades.
Do you think that your educators were climate scientists? Maybe you just had educators which misestimated the reports of actual scientists.
Is a grade-school teacher supposed to understand climate forecasting?
You're an adult. You should have realized by now that your grade school teachers didn't actually know everything about everything.
We have like 15 years. Perhaps you dont think +1.5C does anything to farming?
The sea levels rising is not the issue.
edit - a better link since someone didn't appreciate my google-fu: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo...
Stop moving goalposts. The media has a problem with peddling misinformation and shitty climate predictions.
I`m not a climate change denier, but shitty predictions definitely hurt the cause of legitimate concern.
Here's another quick Google search from a (more?) legit site: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo...
Of course anyone in the Gen X/older millennial category should know what I'm talking about anyway (unless they slept through the first decade of their schooling).