The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) released its sixth assessment report on Monday and, like clockwork, media and globalist politicians from all over the world pushed the panic button and again insisted that it’s far past time that the world acts together to bring an end to the scourge of man-caused climate change before it’s too late.
Networks trotted out the old familiar climate-hysteric crowd to sound the alarm bells once again. CNN dug up Michael Mann — the creator of the now widely discredited “hockey stick graph” that featured so prominently in Al Gore’s science-fiction film An Inconvenient Truth.
“Bottom line is that we have zero years left to avoid dangerous climate change, because it’s here,” Mann told CNN.
The new report now explains that it is no longer a matter of conjecture that human beings are the cause of climate change.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred,” the new report states.
The report further claims, “The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years.”
“Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Evidence of observed changes in extremes such as heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and tropical cyclones, and, in particular, their attribution to human influence, has strengthened since AR5.” AR5 was the last full climate assessment released by the IPCC in 2014.
U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the new report saying, “We can’t wait to tackle the climate crisis. The signs are unmistakable. The science is undeniable. And the cost of inaction keeps mounting.”
The alarmist new report may be the impetus for Biden to do what climate hysterics have been begging him to do since he took office in January: declare climate change an actual emergency. Biden is being pressured to declare a climate emergency since climate-alarmist politicians believe that such a declaration would give Biden and the government a wide berth in enacting new and strict rules about what Americans can and can’t do vis-à-vis the climate.
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the new report “sober reading,” and hoped it would spur global action during the coming COP26 global climate conference scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland.
And UN Secretary General António Guterres claimed that the new report was a “code red for humanity.”
“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk,” Guterres said in a statement.
The story about the release of the report was the top trending story on Twitter worldwide, and everyone knows that Twitter would never manipulate its trending stories.
So, the newest IPCC assessment is predicting dire consequences for mankind and the Earth unless drastic steps are taken with regard to planetary emissions of greenhouse gases. Just how sure are they of their predictions?
As Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. points out, they’re not that sure at all. The IPCC report issues certain scenarios we might expect based upon Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) and Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP). RCPs and SSPs with lower numbers are considered less dangerous.
The report itself says, “The likelihood of high emission scenarios such as RCP8.5 or SSP5-8.5 is considered low,” and that future emission trends would more likely be “in line with the medium RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and SSP2-4.5 scenarios.”
Yet the IPCC’s report focuses far more on the high-emission scenarios (which the report itself considers a “low” likelihood) than the emission trends it considers most likely. The report mentions those high scenarios 53 percent of the time, while the scenarios it considers most likely are only mentioned 18.4 percent of the time.
This is pretty far in the weeds, and Pielke Jr. explains it in more detail, but it shows that the conclusions of the IPCC report may be manipulated to some extent.
The IPCC report is very manipulative and drones on in very authoritative language about how mankind is destroying the planet, but you have to remember the source. The IPCC is a UN agency. The UN’s ultimate goal is to create a one-world socialist government, with it leading the charge against climate change being a major cog in that effort. Despite the authoritative language, the science they are pushing is still very much in dispute.
This report is science in service to politics. It is fear-mongering designed to elicit knee-jerk responses from jittery government officials. It’s agenda-driven science at its worst.
The problem is that in many cases, it appears to be working.
