This is maddening to read. The science has not changed. What has changed is that an enormous amount of effort to transition society away from fossil fuels has accelerated in the last decade, and because of that, we have bent the curve on future emissions such that RCP8.5 is no longer “business as usual.”

This is very much a scenario like the Y2K problem — if the doomsday scenario does not occur it will be because people dug in and did the hard work to avoid it.

Clueless people like the author of this article, who apparently only experience the very real crisis of climate change as a media spectacle, will continue making dumb comments like “ha ha, remember when those dumb scientists said the sky was falling?” all along the way to eventual drawdown of CO2, while those of us engaged in the problem are up to our necks in the muck, actually doing the work.