In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

The first efforts of the Trump Administration to shut down offshore wind projects ran into a wall of judicial opposition. They have now come up with Plan B, says Francis Menton. It appears that the administration is entering into legal settlements with wind farm developers, whereby the government pays the developers substantial sums of money to walk away from the projects. The post Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind appeared first on Clintel.

RCP 8.5 has been given its official death certificate. The generation of children who grew up in its shadow, who were told the world was ending before they’d turn thirty, deserve to know the truth. Let’s make sure the message reaches them, says Anthony Watts. The post A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why appeared first on Clintel.

Carbon dioxide is not a toxin to crops, as The Washington Post recently claimed. Demonizing it as the “invisible force” behind nutritional decline ignores the broader picture, says Anthony Watts. “The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis.” The post No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy appeared first on Clintel.

There is no climate emergency, says Clintel’s World Climate Declaration. Thomas Kurz is the author of an upcoming book with that very theme. Recently he spoke about it on Tom Nelson’s podcast. The post Thomas Kurz: Why there is no climate crisis appeared first on Clintel.