Yes, I have been reading up on this stuff over several years but the goal posts have been changing from the climate scientists. It was only a couple of years ago that there was going to be '
end of snow'.
These types of claims, along with '
even the rain that falls won't fill our dams' have been horribly incorrect and caused massive investment in white elephant desalination plants and resulted in tourism and property valuations being decimated on the slopes.
I daresay that the recent damages we've suffered with flooding has been due in part to water not being released from the dams earlier due to the fear that there was not going to be any replenishment from normal cycles of dry and wet. The water management bodies allowed Wivenhoe and the Hume to go to almost overflowing before releasing water.
And let's also consider that large sections of the Great Barrier Reef is in the
best condition it has been since records have been kept.
The catastrophism surrounding the short-medium term predictions have almost gone beyond the 'boy who cried wolf' idiom. IMO, it's causing a greater rush to renewables that might be necessary and damaging our economies and energy security to almost beyond repair making us extremely vulnerable to potential security shocks and damaging the lives of people who can't afford the financial pain we're coping - and it's only just starting.
The transition to RE has just been managed horribly across the entire planet at all levels.