What is RCP8.5? Unpacking misleading claims about climate scenarios
The United Nations and climate scientists haven’t admitted their climate change projections are wrong, contrary to claims from Trump and others
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Cutting emissions today limits future climate impacts, but certain changes are ‘locked in’ due to past CO2 emissions
Sea levels will rise this century and remain elevated for thousands of years due to our past emissions. Ice sheets, glaciers, and ocean temperatures will also face irreversible changes.
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InaccurateArticle falsely attributes invented quotes to James Hansen
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Father of Global Warming’ Scientist Finally Admits Theory Is Wrong
Source: Principia Scientific, Your News Wire, NewsPunch, Baxter Dmitry, 2018-07-08 -
1.7Very highABC article effectively illustrates important climate trends for Australian readers
“This article is exceptionally good in delivering accurate information in an engaging way. There are many useful statements made about the effects of climate change on extreme weather globally and in Australia and these have been backed up by links to relevant peer-reviewed literature.”
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-0.8LowNew York Times op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks supporting evidence
“Most of the specific facts and statistics in this op-ed are correct, but the overall effect is significantly misleading. The author’s central point is that scientists have been drastically underestimating the scope and the pace of climate change until just the past decade or so, and recent events such as permafrost melting, ice cap loss, and extreme weather events have caught them by surprise. This is simply not true.”
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Incorrect2°C is not known to be a "point of no return", as Jonathan Franzen claims
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The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius
Source: The New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen, 2019-09-08
