The Net Zero nightmare is collapsing. On Monday, Belgian author and commentator Drieu Godefridi posted the news that should have sent shockwaves through Brussels: the
IPCC had formally admitted that its most extreme climate scenario,
RCP8.5, is “implausible”. The very pathway that underpinned the entire
European Green Deal, trillions in spending, farmer-crushing regulations
and two decades of energy-suicide policies across the EU, UK, Canada and
Australia has been exposed as fantasy. “The house of cards is falling,”
Godefridi writes. “Von der Leyen and the entire EU Deep State are
cornered.” Science, he says, demands the explicit repudiation of all EU
documents, legislation and communications built on this doomsday
scenario – and therefore the repeal of the Green Deal in its entirety.
Roger Pielke Jr., the American political scientist who has tracked this issue for years, put it even more starkly
in late April: “RCP8.5 is officially dead.” The international committee
responsible for the scenarios feeding into the IPCC’s Seventh
Assessment Report has eliminated the high-end pathways – RCP8.5,
SSP5-8.5 and SSP3-7.0 – that have dominated climate research, headlines
and policy for the better part of two decades. As the new van Vuuren et al. framework for CMIP7 makes clear, these extreme scenarios are no longer credible....<<<Read More>>>...
