{"id":442725,"date":"2026-05-06T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=442725"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:09:33","slug":"ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible-meaning-most-media-scare-stories-over-last-15-years-are-officially-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=442725","title":{"rendered":"IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are \u201cImplausible\u201d \u2013 Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activist climate scientists, journalists and Net Zero-obsessed politicians are in shock following an official admission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a set of key assumptions promoting a climate \u2018crisis\u2019 since 2011 are \u201cimplausible\u201d. The notorious set of always-improbable RCP8.5 \u2018pathway\u2019 assumptions which fed into computer models trying to measure an unmeasurable climate are no more. Since around 2011, these \u2018business as usual\u2019 assumptions have produced outlandish claims of future climate catastrophe which have been lapped up by lap dog journalists and politicians. The influential writer Roger Pielke Jr. called RCP8.5\u2019s demise, \u201cthe most significant development in climate research in decades<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others might observe that we have not heard the last of RCP8.5. Its gross misuse is likely to be given a starring, central role when the history of the Great Climate and Net Zero Scam comes to be written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pielke lays it out clearly what has happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What matters today is that the group with official responsibility for developing climate scenarios for the IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He goes on to note that tens of thousands of research papers have been and continue to be published using these scenarios. In addition, a similar number of media headlines have \u201camplified their findings\u201d, while governments and international organisations have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It cannot be over-emphasised how important this finding of implausibility is. It means that almost every fearmongering mainstream media climate headline and story that has been written over the last 15 years is junk. Of course it also explains why a growing band of sceptical commentators have refused to accept the political concept of \u2018settled\u2019 science and have engaged in widespread debunking. Shooting fish in a barrel is one way of describing this work. At times, with just a modicum of investigative scepticism, the stories can be seen as little more than an insult to average human intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the RCP8.5 assumptions are loaded into computer models, they run politically-convenient red hot suggestions that the temperature in 2100 will rise by about 4\u00b0C from a 1850-1900 baseline \u2013 in other words, a rise of nearly 3\u00b0C in the next 80 years. Only the most deranged eco loons will claim such large short-term rises out loud, so the activist scientists quietly loaded garbage assumptions into their computers to arrive at their garbage-out Armageddon scares. The writing was on the wall for RCP8.5 last year when President Trump\u2019s executive order titled \u2018Restoring Gold Standard Science<\/a>\u2019 effectively banned the use of RCP8.5 for scientists on the United States federal payroll. It also noted one of the unrealistic RCP8.5 assumptions driving deliberate climate psychosis to be that end-of-century coal use will exceed estimates of recoverable reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the climate researcher Zeke Hausfather dismissed the Trump Administration\u2019s claims about RCP8.5 by stating that the research community had moved on. But Pielke has taken issue with this \u2018nothing to see here\u2019 claim. He states that from 2018 to 2021, Google Scholar reported 17,000 articles published using RCP8.5 compared with 16,900 in the next three year period. \u201cSome shift,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, those using less charitable words might note that the ultimate climate crackpipe has proved difficult to put down. A long and painful process of rehabilitation now seems likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RCP8.5 assumed high emissions of carbon dioxide leading to a radiative forcing (extra energy trapped in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere) of 8.5 watts per square metre. The new pathways act as agreed guidelines for computer models<\/a> that will then provide information for the IPCC\u2019s forthcoming seventh assessment reports. Pielke has run the figures and estimates that the new high scenario will produce 3\u00b0C of warming by 2100, a reduction from 3.9\u00b0C but still an improbable 1.8\u00b0C rise in less than 80 years. Of course these new scenarios are just assumptions anyway, and on past observational evidence of atmospheric gas \u2018saturation\u2019 stretching back 600 million years they still grossly overestimate the warming effect of a few trace gases. Much higher levels of CO2<\/sub> were the norm in the past in a complex, chaotic, non-linear and ultimately unmeasurable atmosphere. Climate scare bingo based on sightings in mainstream media of \u2018scientists say\u2019 will likely continue as long as an audience, albeit a diminishing one, still believes in the politicised agitprop of a \u2018climate emergency\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it might seem churlish to pick on a single mainstream media RCP8.5 nonsense story, but there is one that is your correspondent\u2019s favourite. This article not only reported RCP8.5 fantasies but climbed even further heights, going where no other story has gone before. In May last year, Mark Poynting of the BBC claimed that \u201cscientists say\u201d coastal land and beyond could be overwhelmed with several metres of sea level rise if global temperature moves by three-tenths of a degree centigrade<\/a>. This claim was arrived at by pushing the boundaries well beyond what even SSP5-8.5 (a newer version of RCP8.5) predicted. Based on a paper looking at polar ice melt<\/a>, which gave a high emissions projected rise by 2100 of between 12 and 52 centimetres, Poynting chanced on a suggestion that the IPCC said it could not rule out (admittedly with \u201clow confidence\u201d) that the pathway could point to a sea level rise of over 15 metres by 2300. So Poynting got his several metres of inundation story, \u201ceven if ambitious targets of limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C is met\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purely anecdotal, but the BBC seems to have moderated its wilder climate stories of late with the \u201cClimate\u201d topic on its News site relegated to the second tier of subjects. This might be considered a bit of a status drop for a subject whose authors had past pretentions to provide an essential core for all reporting. Now it finds itself rubbing shoulders with the picture gallery and the dumbed-down \u201cNewsbeat\u201d offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But we must avoid the temptation to intrude on private grief. It is to be hoped that this move does not spell the end of the highly imaginative claptrap classics that have added to the gaiety of the nation over so many years. Regular readers will recall climate change could make beer taste worse<\/a> and the Gulf Stream could collapse<\/a> by 2025 \u2013 how we shall miss all this copy aimed at the idiot short of a village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor. Follow him on X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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