1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="MgnUwA2ATU"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/even-good-climate-news-flipped-to-alarmism/">Even Good Climate News Flipped to Alarmism</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/even-good-climate-news-flipped-to-alarmism/embed/#?secret=MgnUwA2ATU" width="600" height="338" title="“Even Good Climate News Flipped to Alarmism” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="MgnUwA2ATU" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Veterans of the climate policy debate have known for years that no matter what, those worried about emissions can take any new information to conclude: "Things are worse than we thought! We need our preferred policies more than ever!" A Working Paper from earlier this year shows just how far this trend can be pushed, whereby elite researchers took the U.N.'s reduction in the bottom range of man's likely influence on global temperatures to argue for increased worry about the future. "When Is Good News Bad?" To show that I am not attacking a straw man, let me quote liberally from the Abstract of the paper, "Climate Uncertainty: When Is Good News Bad?" published early this year by Freeman, Wagner, and Zeckhauser (two of whom are at Harvard):https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_thumbnails_thumb_cartoon-figures.jpg