"Climate Change" for us has meant extremes in weather. A storm was a storm but now, homes are wreck and people are killed like never before.
The number of climate related deaths has gone down dramatically. What has gone up is the reporting of the few deaths that still occur.
We had a "heat dome". Must have been at least +47C in the shade at my house. It cooked the sun-facing branches of all the local conifers rust-red brown.
A recent check of the meteorological balloon data shows that there has been no long term change in global temperature since 1998. What does change is the local temperature due to changes in vegetation. Reducing vegetation reduces evaporation and that can lead to a large rise in temperatures which is particularly noticeable in cities which have almost no natural evaporative cooling.
There was warming from the 1970s to ~2000. That happens to coincide with the period of the clean air acts which dramatically reduced the amount of SO2 being released. SO2 at low level causes smog ... at high level it increases sunlight reflecting cloud, and also creates acid rain.
Since the 1970s we have also seen a dramatic increase in aeroplane vapour trails. These are released in the coldest part of the atmosphere, where paradoxically, they reduce IR emission and so can help to warm the planet.
We also happen to be at the peak of the AMO cycle, which tends to warm, and yes the small rise in CO2 should have added a small fraction of a degree average increase ... which given everything going on, is far too small to detect.
Fortunately, the climatic record shows that the runaway warming that occurs very frequently as the world comes out of an ice-age comes to a juddering stop at the interglacial temperatures. So, not only is heat and CO2 good for the planet, but there is nothing to fear from further runaway warming. However, the same is not true for cooling. The climatic record shows the planet regularly undergoes runaway cooling (basically flipping between ice-age and interglacial).
On average it is about 7000 years from the start of the inter-glacial to the next flip into an ice-age. We are currently 10,000 years into the current interglacial ... so a flip into the ice-age is overdue.