{"id":417224,"date":"2025-12-13T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417224"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:21:45","slug":"government-bodies-humiliated-by-promoting-junk-climate-scares-from-retracted-nature-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417224","title":{"rendered":"Government Bodies Humiliated by Promoting Junk Climate Scares from Retracted Nature Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"419\" data-attachment-id=\"417232\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417232\" 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\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/12\/12\/government-bodies-humiliated-by-promoting-junk-climate-scares-from-retracted-nature-paper\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/chris-morrison\/\">Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"421\" data-attachment-id=\"417230\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417230\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?fit=738%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"738,430\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?fit=723%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?resize=723%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The facade of the Bank of England, featuring classical architecture with columns and statues, against a blue sky with a Union Jack flag flying.\" class=\"wp-image-417230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?w=738&amp;ssl=1 738w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-262.png?resize=640%2C373&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The old academic putdown \u2018it\u2019s not even wrong\u2019 comes to mind in considering the disgraced and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07219-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now retracted science paper Kotz&nbsp;<em>et al<\/em><\/a>. The science writer Jo Nova has speculated on how the paper was even published in&nbsp;<em>Nature,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joannenova.com.au\/2025\/12\/second-most-popular-paper-of-climate-and-economic-doom-has-now-been-retracted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given how awful it was<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp;With its unfalsifiable claims of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pik-potsdam.de\/en\/news\/latest-news\/38-trillion-dollars-in-damages-each-year-world-economy-already-committed-to-income-reduction-of-19-due-to-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$38 trillion of global damage<\/a>&nbsp;each year by 2050 due to human-caused climate change, Kotz was patent nonsense. It was not even within touching distance of other extravagant claims of climate damage. Yet Kotz was avidly picked up by government agencies around the world seemingly desperate to use any old gobbledegook to push the Net Zero fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being wrong assumes that something is within a ballpark of being right. The Kotz authors tried that and made some adjustments to the figures after initial criticism when the paper was published in April 2024. But in the end the task was hopeless and&nbsp;<em>Nature&nbsp;<\/em>retracted the work this month. But not before its conclusions on climate impacts have cascaded through numerous governmental operations tasked with determining and regulating public policy. A great deal of rewriting now looks to be in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, the Bank of England used&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/financial-stability-report\/2025\/december-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cplausible\u201d scenarios<\/a>&nbsp;derived from Kotz to go into full climate catastrophising overdrive with suggestions that asset and bond markets could face stresses similar to the 2008 global crash. On Monday, the&nbsp;<em>Daily Sceptic<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/12\/08\/exclusive-uk-office-of-budget-responsibilitys-latest-climate-fear-mongering-claims-based-on-junk-findings-from-retracted-nature-paper\/\">looked in detail<\/a>&nbsp;at the Horlicks made by the UK\u2019s Office for Budget Responsibility, which used Kotz to divest itself of the opinion that the country\u2019s GDP would fall by nearly 8% unless humans stopped the weather changing. Annual state borrowing was forecast to rise by \u00a350 billion by 2050 unless the Net Zero rain dance was successful. In a report to the British Parliament, the Climate Change Committee referenced Kotz in a section discussing economic damage arising from climate risk. Meanwhile, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) appears to have been a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/publication\/corporate\/quantitative-climate-scenario-analysis-financial-decisions-case-studies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keen fan of Kotz<\/a>&nbsp;and all its downstream impact works such as NGFS Phase V.&nbsp;Over the last year there are many references with the FCA keen to emphasise non-linear economic losses and the need for conservative assumptions in financial stress testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What might be considered surprising is that all of this work closely connected to Kotz was produced at a time when serious doubts about the paper were raised in science circles. From the start of this year, concerns started to mount about data quality and extrapolation methods. It became apparent there were problems over an Uzbekistan economic database from 1995-1999 that led to model estimates of temperature impacts on growth inflating global projections by a factor of three. Attempts were made to revise the original paper but in the end the task was too great, and\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0finally retracted it. It is hardly an exaggeration to observe that dodgy data from Uzbekistan cascaded through the paper out into the real world where it led the Bank of England just a few days ago to publish scares of climate-induced global crashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"512\" data-attachment-id=\"417226\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417226\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?fit=940%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?fit=723%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?resize=723%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of a retracted article from the journal Nature, titled 'The economic commitment of climate change', with a notice indicating the article was retracted on December 3, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-417226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?resize=768%2C544&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-260.png?resize=640%2C453&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis study was used to justify all kinds of economic decisions that otherwise make no sense. Ka-ching. Ka-ching,\u201d notes Jo Nova. This is emblematic of the whole field of climate research, she observed, adding: \u201cMonopsonistic&nbsp;research always finds&nbsp;what the one sole customer (the Blob) pays it to find. Thus the government-funded establishment loved it. Look how popular this junk research was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kotz paper arose from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a known nest of hard-line climate activists with substantial past climate catastrophising form. This is the number one place to go for disappearing sea ice, an overturning Gulf Stream and bazillion-dollar falls in global wealth. Needless to say, it is backed by copious amounts of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pik-potsdam.de\/en\/institute\/futurelabs-science-units\/ersu\/funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Government money<\/a>\u00a0from the European Union as well as private foundations. Considerable money appears to flow from individual project grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, few US government bodies appear to have been caught out by the damage impacts model produced by Kotz that was later integrated into the NGFS catastrophising scenarios. The Trump Administration has been cleaning house of all the federal climate catastrophising BS this year. It didn\u2019t take long for the Federal&nbsp;Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Treasury Department to withdraw from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), an international body of regulators and banks set up at the height of the Green Mania in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, President Trump signed an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/05\/restoring-gold-standard-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a>\u00a0that said the results of federal scientists must be falsifiable, computer models must be explainable and negative results\u00a0available. Not all activist-scientists were happy with this return to the \u201d gold standard\u201d, with a group including Michael \u2018Hockey Stick\u2019 Mann\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/29\/trump-american-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing in the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 seemingly without irony \u2013 that it will \u201cdestroy American science as we know it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It certainly destroyed the ability of the American Central Bank to tout global financial collapse on the basis of a Government-funded science paper so bad even ideologically-captured&nbsp;<em>Nature&nbsp;<\/em>has been forced to retract it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Chris Morrison is the<\/em>&nbsp;Daily Sceptic<em>\u2019s Environment Editor. Follow&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CMorrisonEsq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>him on X<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old academic putdown \u2018it\u2019s not even wrong\u2019 comes to mind in considering the disgraced and now retracted science paper Kotz et al. The science writer Jo Nova has speculated on how the paper was even published in Nature, \u201cgiven how awful it was\u201d. With its unfalsifiable claims of $38 trillion of global damage each year by 2050 due to human-caused climate change, Kotz was patent nonsense. 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