> Has the climate collapsed? There are still glaciers in Glacier Nation Park. The Maldives remain islands, not seamounts.

Just to really quickly call out these tired old straw-men... all of these "predicted disasters" are far further along today than they were predicted to be by this date by, for example, the IPCC in 1990[0]. Deniers keep acting as if it scientists have been "crying wolf" for decades when the truth is that the 99% of the scientists doing real work on anthropogenic global warming have always been extremely conservative and reality has outpaced their predictions all along.

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg2/

The glaciers in Glacier Nation Park have reduced by 39% the last 50 years. There used to be 150 glaciers larger than 25 acres, now there is 26. Maybe not the best example.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/glaciers-rap...

> Except that computers did, in fact, learn to speak.

But prior to it happening it was just a long term prediction that had kept not happening for the longest time.

> Has the climate collapsed?

There's an awful lot of room between "business as usual" and "total collapse".

Must we wait until after bad things have happened to only then discuss what we might have done about them in hindsight? Surely proactively avoiding problems is better?