David Staples: Climate scientists have already gotten it wrong with extreme forecasts. How and why?

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 David Staples: Climate scientists have already gotten it wrong with extreme forecasts. How and why?

By David Staples

We’ve all seen the dark and alarming headlines about the coming climate crises. It’s hard to know what to make of them.

If we’re not being told of attacks of extreme flooding or threats of Biblical rainfall, we’re hearing that climate change is already making droughts worse or that climate change will impact poor countries far more than rich ones.

But the most alarming headlines tend to be based on scientific papers using implausible scenarios of the future, scenarios that were never meant to inform real world climate policy, says Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder, who has studied climate change and policy for 25 years

“So much of climate science is based on implausible scenarios … they have no connection to the real world. They should play no role in climate research to inform plausible projections of climate impacts or policy.”

https://co2coalition.org/2021/03/19/david-staples-climate-scientists-have-already-gotten-it-wrong-with-extreme-forecasts-how-and-why/