CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On
October 24, 2020, CLINTEL, the
international climate intelligence group of over 900 scientists and
scholars, sent McKinsey Global Institute a letter asking why their
recent climate change reports relied on a future scenario of
extreme warming, that most scientists reject as science fiction,
says Friends of Science Society.
The climate modeled simulation is known as the Representative
Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP 8.5), part of a series of
simulations developed to study what factors affect climate change.
According to a Jan. 2, 2020, article
in Forbes, climate policy analyst Roger
Pielke, Jr., in 2014, climate science was corrupted by two
billionaires and a key climate activists who developed the "Risky
Business" report, presenting the RCP 8.5 as business-as-usual,
which it is not.
Pielke, Jr. writes: "According to the New
York Times, in November 2012,
one month after stepping down from the hedge fund he led, Steyer
gathered environmental leaders and Democratic party leaders around
the kitchen table at his ranch in Pescadero, California. Among those in
attendance were Bill McKibben, the
founder of 350.org, and John
Podesta, who had founded the Center for American Progress
(CAP) in 2003 to promote progressive causes."
The "Risky Business" report was published after the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had issued its AR5
'climate Bible' in which it revealed there had been no
statistically significant warming for 15 years prior, leading
scientists like Dr. Judith Curry, to
testify to the US Senate in 2014, that carbon dioxide is not the
driver that can fine tune climate.
Pielke, Jr. shows how the "Risky Business" focus on the RCP 8.5
scenario proliferated through academic literature and public
discussion. Even climate scientists Zeke
Hausfather of the Breakthrough Institute and Glen Peters of Norway's CICERO denounced the use of RCP 8.5
as 'business-as-usual' in a commentary published in NATURE
Jan. 29, 2020. Their commentary is
sub-titled: "Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming
as the most likely outcome — more-realistic baselines make for
better policy."
In another CLINTEL initiative of Oct. 19,
2020, Prof. Guus Berkhout has
co-signed a letter from German teenager Naomi Seibt to EU President, Ursala von der Leyen, with Naomi's signature
theme "I don't want you to panic, I want you to think." Seibt is
countering a recent campaign by Greta
Thunberg and several other young women who have petitioned
or met with European leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, as reported by VOA News,
Aug. 20, 2020.
The Seibt-Berkhout statement reads, in part: "Stop corrupting
the goodwill and hope of the people by pressuring us with panic.
Stop pretending that modest natural changes in the weather
constitute an "emergency". Stop putting the blame on the miners,
refiners, motor manufacturers and electricity generators whose
contributions to the improvement of life on Earth have been
immeasurably net-beneficial."
"The democratic, free-market civilization of the West flourishes
because we uphold liberty as our highest virtue. It is a sacred
accomplishment for which we ought to be grateful. We should not
destroy the fruits of our philosophical, political and
technological progress."
Like CLINTEL, Friends of Science Society continues to challenge
press censorship and distortion on climate science reporting. Most
recently Friends of Science called out SLATE on Oct. 23, 2020, in a blog post and video, for
publishing a fluffy climate crusader piece on West Coast wildfires
when SLATE could have reported facts and offered citizens
information on wildfire mitigation.
About Friends of Science Society
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atmospheric and solar scientists, engineers, and citizens that is
celebrating its 18th year of offering climate science insights.
After a thorough review of a broad spectrum of literature on
climate change, Friends of Science Society has concluded that the
sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide (CO2).
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