At this point, a reminder is useful: the issue is not what the authors claim, but what the results depend on.
Category: RCP 8.5 Science Fiction
Why is the Met Office adopting the language of climate alarmism?
The Met Office exists to forecast the weather. But increasingly it seems bored by the day job so it likes to lecture us about climate change. And here it seems…
The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On
It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a…
Projected Increase in Heat-Related Deaths in Europe: Misleading Models and Statistical Fearmongering
Rather than fixating on improbable doomsday scenarios, we should focus on resilience, innovation, and pragmatic policies that address both heat- and cold-related risks. The public deserves climate discussions rooted in…
Global CO2 Emissions are Tracking Well Below the Climate Scenarios Used to Scare People
While an emissions scenario like SSP5-8.5 has been widely used to scare humanity with climate model projections of extreme warming, this plot shows the last several years of global emissions…
Climate Cooking: from Roger Pielke Jr.
“Steyer was focused on the question: ‘How do you make climate change feel real and immediate for people?’”
The Marathon of Misguided Climate Alarmism: A Review of “Feasibility of the Olympic marathon under climatic and socioeconomic change”
The paper, shrouded in the guise of scientific inquiry, seems more like an exercise in creative speculation, leveraging the universal appeal of the Olympics to propagate the narrative of climate…
Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. “The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Science”
At the University of Colorado, Roger founded and directed both the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and the Sports Governance Center.
If We Imagine Really Bad Stuff, It Might Affect Crop Yields.
…use large ensembles to generate plausible unprecedented events, which can inform our assessment of the risk to crops
The Misuse of RCP4.5
Well, according to IPCC AR6 it leads to a central estimate of 2.9C temperature change in 2100, which is not 2.0 or 1.5
Claim: Unchecked Global Emissions on Track to Initiate Mass Extinction of Marine Life
Peer-Reviewed Publication PRINCETON UNIVERSITY As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world’s oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet within the next few centuries to levels not…
Media finally notices that the RCP 8.5 climate model is over-hyped science fiction
First, a science fiction preview of DOOM courtesy of the RCP8.5 model: Some sensibility from the WSJ: Climate Media vs. Climate Science The good news is that scientists themselves have…
A demo showing our broken climate policy debate
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 8 February 2020 Summary: Progress in the climate policy debate comes too slowly. The use and misuse of RCP8.5…
RCP 8.5 to Exterminate Antarctica's Penguins by 2100!!!
Guest post by David Middleton From the formerly respectable National Geographic… By Aaron Sidder PUBLISHED JUNE 29, 2016 Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) have survived in Antarctica for nearly 45,000…