So many people here are ignorant.

Read the primary source material (datasets, scientific peer-reviewed journal publications) and stop letting people interpret the data for you (i.e.: most news source out there).


Here are global temperatures:

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/tlt_201901_bar.png

Shows 3 year global trend of dropping temperatures. The average is now in line with peaks in the 80s, 90, early 00s. I repeat, global temperatures have been going down for the last 3 years.

Fact that is hard for many people to swallow: every study that tries to devine the future uses climate models ... (simulations by computer, using simple formulas, funded by government) for example NASA, or its Japanese or French equivalent.

Look at the primary source, the IPCC assessment report:
https://archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapter_05.pdf

1. it predicts that we should have experienced an 15-18 degree C increase in global temperatures by now.

look at the global temperatures now, last winter, we were only 0.1 degree above the global mean.

that is not just a wrong prediction, you are not even in the same ballpark.

2. It predicts that rainforest would have lost 20% of its precipitation and would shrink due to climate change

completely false, precipitation is increasing. Again they are off not by a little, but by an order of magnitude.

http://www.waterandclimatechange.eu/rainfall/amazon-river-basin-rainfall-in-average-year

the amazon forests thrive in warmer temperatures and actually grow shockingly fast.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16512#ref2

Again, these climate reports based on a conglomerate of climate scientists (who BTW 90% work for government, and im sure that government has no bias, and neither does pumping money for grants)

So the point is, all climate models in the 90 and 00s were completely wrong. Global temperatures are factually going down for the last 3 years, none of the models predicted this. Most people here read articles about the "Earth warming in 2050 and there's nothing we can do about it"... I advise you to look how they come up to those numbers...

how do you think they can make a prediction in 2050? that's right, climate models. which are proven again and again to be completely wrong. The mods edited the IPCC wiki page for their assessment reports and claim they predicted today's tempertures (laughably, and factually untrue, look at the PDF of their report).