A demo showing our broken climate policy debate
Progress in the climate policy debate comes too slowly. The use and misuse of RCP8.5 shows why. At this pace, the climate will give final answers before we get a consensus. We can’t afford this.
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About the corruption of climate science
Today’s post tells about the corruption of yet another vital American institution – climate science. See how RCP8.5, a valuable worst-case scenario, has been misrepresented to incite fear in the American public.
Scary but fake news about the National Climate Assessment
A 10% hit to GDP from climate change! It’s a vivid number for Americans still skeptical after thirty years of dire warnings about climate change. It’s fake.
Fix the mistakes that killed the climate change campaign!
Let’s trace one reason for its failure, starting with a new paper back through time to the original error. It is never too late to learn and change course.
Roger Pielke Jr.: the politics of unlikely climate scenarios
Summary: The public policy choices we make about climate policy depend on the future that we expect. Here Roger Pielke Jr. describes an example of how climate scenarios too often misrepresent what we know about our world and its likely futures. “Pielke on Climate” – part 3 of 3. The Politics of Inconceivable Scenarios. By …
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