{"id":370615,"date":"2025-03-18T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370615"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:08:47","slug":"climate-scientists-failure-to-tell-the-truth-is-why-net-zero-was-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=370615","title":{"rendered":"Climate Scientists \u201cFailure to Tell the Truth\u201d Is why Net Zero was Abandoned?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alan Kohler. Source\u00a0The New Daily<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 they worry that if the true nightmare was revealed, \u2026 everybody \u2026 would \u2026 just give up \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump\u2019s America is abandoning climate action and the fight just got harder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Alan Kohler<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bulldozing the Amazon rainforest is a fitting way to mark 30 years of failure of annual gabfests that have released colossal amounts of carbon dioxide from the mouths of the well-meaning and burned tonnes of aviation fuel to get them there, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions not one bit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Energy scientist, Vaclav Smil<\/a> puts the total cost of achieving net zero by 2050 at $US444 trillion, or $US17 trillion a year for 25 years, \u201crequiring affluent economies to spend 20 to 25 per cent of their annual GDP on the transition\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So net zero by 2050 won\u2019t happen and the increase in global temperature will not be limited to the 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels that was agreed as preferred at Paris in 2015 \u2013 nowhere near it.

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There has been systemic reticence on the part of scientists to spell out what\u2019s actually going on, first because science is inherently uncertain, so they are always reluctant to be definitive, and second because they worry that if the true nightmare was revealed, politicians and everybody else would either refuse to believe it or just give up.

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-03-17\/climate-change-religion-trump-zeldin-epa-wind-back-rules\/105057538<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The average temperature difference between the Aussie state capitals Melbourne and Brisbane is around 4\u00baC, so why isn\u2019t everyone in Brisbane dying from climate change? How could global warming of 4\u00baC make Melbourne uninhabitable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cairns is about as much warmer than Brisbane as Brisbane is warmer than Melbourne. 4\u00baC warming wouldn\u2019t even make Brisbane uninhabitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course you have prosperous and high population tropical cities like Jakarta and Singapore even closer to the equator than Cairns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all this isn\u2019t enough, we have evidence from the distant past that warming is not a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our monkey ancestors also did well in a much hotter world. The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum<\/a>, 5-8C hotter than today, was the age of monkeys. Our monkey ancestors thrived on the abundance of the hothouse PETM, and colonised much of the world<\/a>, only retreating when the encroaching cold drove them from their new homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fish also did pretty well during the PETM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Study: Ancient Fish Thrived During PETM Extreme Global Warming<\/a><\/blockquote>