USA Today and other media outlets are publicizing an alarmist climate study claiming Earth has passed a “point of no return” for unending global warming.
The study is so flawed that even climate activists are criticizing it. Americans deserve better climate reporting.
A pair of researchers from the Norwegian Business School published the study, claiming, “In this paper, we report that in the ESCIMO climate model the world is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming. In ESCIMO we observe self-sustained melting of the permafrost for hundreds of years, even if global society stops all emissions of man-made GHGs immediately.” [emphasis in the original]
This new study projects a climate future so bad, even prominent climate alarmists like Katharine Hayhoe are criticizing it:
It is noteworthy that even Hayhoe criticizes the study as “doomerism.” Hayhoe and her peers have been preaching climate doom for decades, yet even she realizes the new study is indefensible.
The real issue climate alarmists have with the new study is that the general public has to think climate change is enough of a problem to be motivated to “act now” and make reductions in lifestyle to slow CO2 emissions.
But this new study about the future, suggesting zero-emissions energy use will have no effect in our lifetimes discourages even the most fervent climate action supporters, who will likely lose interest and lapse into apathy.
After all, if we are already past the “point of no return,” why spend time and energy on the issue now?
Even the much-ballyhooed Paris Climate Conference, from which President Trump wisely withdrew, has been shown in a 2015 study by Bjorn Lomborg to have virtually no effect on future temperatures, as seen in Figure 1, below.
Lomborg observes:
“Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades.”
The bottom line, whether it is elections, stock markets, or climate change, we would be wise to heed the advice of the great Yogi Berra: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
Read more at Climate Realism
So how much did they shell out for this fake Study and how much time did they spend at the bar while coming up with this load of Malarkey
If even Kayhoe (who has blocked me on twitter even tho I never commented on her posts!) has trouble with this “study” you know it’s crap.
USA TODAY is like the rest of the M.S. Media printing fake scare stories like the NYT’s Time and Newsweek have done the fact that USA TODAY once had Gang Members posed holding guns for photo shoot Its just like the rest of the M.S. Media fake stories 99/44&100% Fake Stories
There has been no scientific refutation of the Norwegian study. Only ad hominems and snariness. Climate science is such a fraud. It’s so stupid, only intellectuals could believe it.