>We got very, very lucky with several factors
Not at all.
You look at pages like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
RCP8.5 is the only RCP listed on the graph with no context that it was never expected to ever happen. They did this because they are wrongfully blowing the issue out of proportion. A clear case of unscientific bias portraying data as far more extreme than is appropriate.
There's also this 'greening' factor. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Nature_and_wild...
In the entire article the global greening and anti-desertification is simply not mentioned. This is because they are biased. Another clear case of unscientific bias portraying data as far more extreme than is appropriate.
We're on the fourth prediction of the end of the world, they keep saying we have ~10 years left and when their time runs out they just predict it again. Their unscientific bias is clear.
You must account for the unscientific bias and then climate change is far less of a concern and we weren't 'lucky'. There's a concerted effort to blow it out of proportion for political reasons.