The IPCC AR5 report from the second working group(WGII) will be released at the end of March 2014. The summary for policy makers is going to sound the alarm on climate change again.
Richard Tol a lead author for the section on the economics of climate change has asked for his name to be removed from the document because it is being changed from a commonsensical view of adaptation to climate change to an alarmist position.
"The message in the first draft was that through adaptation and clever development these were manageable risks, but it did require we get our act together."
"This has completely disappeared from the draft now, which is all about the impacts of climate change and the four horsemen of the apocalypse. This is a missed opportunity."
And yet within the AR5 WGII Summary we find these walk backs from previous alarmist positions of earlier IPCC reports.
The economic costs of 'global warming' have been grossly overestimated, a leaked report - shortly to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - has admitted.
Costs of climate change are estimated to be between .2 and 2 per cent of the world’s GDP rather than the previously estimated range of 5 to 20 per cent.
And further in the report: The UN IPCC admits: ‘There is very little confidence that models currently predict extinction risk accurately’ This is an admission that they didn’t have a handle on how biodiversity would be affected by climate change but now realize that they were overly pessimistic.
The IPCC has also done a walk back on their support for biofuels.
Skeptics have been pointing out these flaws for years. Finally, reality is beginning to breach the beachhead where alarmists have had their heads buried in the sand.
Has the apocalypse been averted? Was there ever a climate apocalypse to be averted? Let us rejoice at the good news.
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