‘Climate change is real – but it’s not the apocalypse’

[rangerrebew]

‘Climate change is real – but it’s not the apocalypse’

Roger Pielke Jr on what the IPCC report actually tells us about the climate.
spiked
13th August 2021
 
The release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report this week provoked a wave of apocalypticism. Newspapers carried dire warnings of disaster. Social media were swamped by videos of wildfires and flooding. But should we really be so terrified about the climate? Roger Pielke Jr is a political scientist and professor of climate studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. spiked caught up with him to discuss what the IPCC report actually says.

spiked: How concerned should we be by the IPCC report?

Roger Pielke: It’s a mistake to think that individual reports should make us concerned. The core conclusions from the climate-science community have been very consistent since the IPCC started more than 30 years ago. The findings indicate very strongly that humans affect the climate and that the effect is going to increase in the future. That carries with it some considerable risks that we might want to take into account as we make decisions about development, growth, future energy use and so on. This report is simply another milestone in a 30-year journey for the IPCC.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/13/climate-change-is-real-but-its-not-the-apocalypse/

[The_Reader_David]

... not the apocalypse, unless, of course, the Atlantic Conveyor shuts down from the North Atlantic desalinating due to ice melt, in which case the next Ice Age starts the following Northern Hemisphere winter, while the Left continues nattering on about the need to "decarbonize" the energy economy.

[EdinVA]

The IPCC is owned by the United Nations..... and we are now taking guidance from them as FACT?