N. Peter Kramer’s Weekly Column
For its climate predictions, the UN climate panel IPCC used a handful of scenarios for how much CO2 humanity will emit this century. One of these, the horror scenario with a sea level rise of one meter and 6 degrees of warming in 2100, in which the earth becomes uninhabitable and large parts are flooded by sea level rise, has now officially been dropped. The new highest emissions scenario removes two-thirds of the predicted growth in CO2-emissions. No surprise for scientists, including co-writers of the doomsday scenario, who delved into the subject and had well-founded criticism on it, because it was based on technological decline and explosive growth in coal use. But they did not get a foothold. Climate deniers, they were called.
All policies became based on the extreme disaster scenario. Billions disappeared into climate funds. The ban on fossil fuels has driven up energy prices. Power grids are jammed due to forced electrification. Wind turbines and solar fields are destroying the countryside. A generation of young people grew up with climate anxiety, fuelled by years of apocalyptic propaganda.
The pivot is now being made. Worldwide, the climate madness has been unmasked.
