Also doesn’t help when hyperbolic predictions do not come true, such as Maldives being underwater by 2020

Certainly doesn't help that nobody made those predictions but denialists make up or intentionally misinterpret people making predictions so as to "prove" nothing is actually happening.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warm...

The widely-cited UNEP report where people get the supposed non-occuring Maldives prediction from suggested that half of the Maldives could be inundated by 2100 in a one-meter-rise scenario.