Valin Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Wall Street Journal The good news is that scientists themselves have started to correct the record. Holman W. Jenkins Jr. April 13, 2021 Joe Biden has put a presidential imprimatur on climate change being an existential threat, and he doesn’t mean in the Jean-Paul Sartre sense of man’s search for meaning in an uncomforting universe. He means the end of humanity, a claim nowhere found in climate science. This is odd because the real news today is elsewhere. Its movement may be ocean-liner-like, the news may be five years old before the New York Times notices it, but the climate community has been backing away from a worst-case scenario peddled to the public for years as “business as usual.” A drumroll moment was Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peter’s 2020 article in the journal Nature partly headlined: “Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome.” This followed the 2017 paper by Justin Ritchie and Hadi Dowlatabadi asking why climate scenarios posit implausible increases in coal burning a century from now. And I could go on. Roger Pielke Jr. and colleagues show how the RCP 8.5 scenario was born to give modelers a high-emissions scenario to play with, and how it came to be embraced despite being at odds with every real-world indicator concerning the expected course of future emissions. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Time To play Spot The Moron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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